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...Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...
...cheer was struck by the House Naval Affairs Committee. When reporters sought the committee's authority for saying that electronic detonation of approaching bombs promised to provide an effective defense, the committee turned out to have nothing more solid in mind than a newspaper interview with Crooner Bing Crosby's somewhat scientific brother Larry...
...Bing Crosby, who long ago involved himself in so many enterprises that he incorporated himself, suddenly announced that he was knocking off work for the rest of 1945. He would spend a week or two in a hospital for treatment of an unspecified infection, he said, and then run for his ranch in Nevada...
...listeners will get none of this pathos in the American version which Bing Crosby recorded last week. Chappell got Tin Pan Alley's Jack (That's Win Darkies Were Born, Sleepy Lagoon) Lawrence to write these syrupy syllables...
Sinatra, now determined to give his following something besides a swoon, has also gone to work on fellow performers. He has persuaded Comic Danny Kaye, Dancer Gene Kelly and Crooner Bing Crosby to make movie shorts along the same lines. Said he last week: "I have never believed in anything so zealously in all my life...