Word: binge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Support for Harvard Football and Coach Dick Harlow" will be the slogan of the rally. The band, cheerleaders, and appropriate speakers are being arranged. At present definite speakers are Athletic Director William J. Bing- ham '16, Coach Dick Harlow, and Captain Rob Green. Former Crimson gridiron greats are being contacted, however...
Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif...
Married. George Robert ("Bob") Crosby, 26, swing bandmaster, younger brother of Crooner Bing Crosby; and June Audrey Kuhn, 19-year-old Chicagoan; in Spokane, Wash. Swingmaster Crosby divorced his first wife last spring...
...inserting announcements promoting their products. In radio, the advertiser not only does his own announcing, he puts on his own show. Time was when the networks had a larger part in finding and developing talent for advertisers to buy. President Paley takes credit for "discovering" Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Bing Crosby. But more recently advertising agencies have found how to do this job for themselves, need less help from the networks. Nevertheless, President Paley is still very much in show business. About five-eighths of Columbia's time is sustaining, must be filled with free shows. CBS prides itself...
...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...