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...last-place Pittsburgh Pirates, who have not won a National League pennant since 1927, were sold last week for about $2,250,000. The buyer: a syndicate which included Crooner Bing Crosby. The sale put Crosby in the same game, but not the same league, with his old running mate, Comedian Bob Hope, who two months ago bought a chunk of the Cleveland Indians...
This was a fair estimate of the golden lure that had led so many high-salaried (and high-taxed) stars-e.g., Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Bing Crosby-into the ranks of the independents...
...Chestnut. The hub of this hubbub has a soft speaking voice, crew-cut brown hair, a shy smile and stands 5 ft. 10 in a Brooks Brothers suit. He traces his comic ancestry to Frank Fay (for sharpness and restraint) and Bing Crosby (for relaxation and affability). But his thoughtful, economical comedy style is probably more aptly compared with Chaplin...
George VI, King of Great Britain, is no Bing Crosby. But a long-standing joke around the palace, propagated by his horsy daughter Elizabeth, has been the King's bad luck on the track. Last week the joke had lost its point. "A most notable feature of the present racing season," reported the Times, "is the success of the King both as an owner and breeder...
...Professor. His New York and Los Angeles studios alone employ 350 full-time instructors, 65% girls. (Among his pupils: John D. Rockefeller Jr., Bing Crosby, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.) Instructors are strictly forbidden to have off-hour dates with patrons. Murray pays them from $1.60 to $2.10 an hour, allows them $25 a month extra for clothes and $3 a week for meals, gives them free milk and vitamins and earthy advice (samples: "Your clothes will smell fresher if dry-cleaned regularly"; "Sitting down only enlarges the hips...