Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted for long, learned phrases, but in one of his reviews last week he was reduced to a simple, heartfelt "Whew!" Object of Lang's whewing: the finest Don Giovanni in recent memory, and probably the most all-round satisfying show yet mounted by General Manager Rudolf Bing at the Metropolitan Opera...
Married. Harry Lillis (Bing) Crosby, 53, granddad of U.S. crooners, multimillionaire golfer, horseman, father of four sons (24 to 19); and curvaceous Cinemactress Kathy Grant (real name: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), 23, who first met him during a 1953 interview as a part-time columnist ("A Texas Gal in Hollywood") for Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy's string of newspapers; he for the second time (his first wife, Musicomedienne Dixie Lee, died in 1952), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show, a fluid, funny musical tour with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Rosemary Clooney, which proved that in TV as anywhere else (see CINEMA) there is no substitute for style...
...Line at 8. Hardheaded Frank McMahon has worked for 20 years to see it come in. Son of a British Columbia wildcatter, McMahon attended Spokane's Gonzaga University (where he was a campus mate of Bing Crosby), began wildcatting in the 19303. In 1939 he formed Pacific Petroleums Ltd., which in less than 19 years has piled up total assets of $34.5 million, holds interests in 7,500,000 acres of potential oil-and-gas lands...
Spokane's Gonzaga University opened its new library, a glittering campus showplace for which sentimental old Non-Grad Bing Crosby (class of '26) donated $615,000. The library, which has 153,000 books, is also outfitted with a special Crosbyana Room. It has wall-to-wall carpeting and glass showcases for Bing's Oscar (for Going My Way in 1944), photographs, citations, old scrapbooks and the 20 gold platters for recordings that sold more than a million copies...