Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Godfrey had their time of glory and then fell back exhausted, Ed has thrived and grown stronger in the heat of conflict. The battleground of TV is strewn with entertainers who could not quite stay the course-Red Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island. He moves like a sleepwalker...
...play, the Crimson moved to the Cornell 30, with a third down and 13 to go. The 5'-11" tailback faded back to pass and threw to Morrison, who made another great catch on the three. And this time the Crimson scored as Gianelly bucked over from the one. Bing Crosby's kick was good...
...Left Hand of God (20th Century-Fox). In their tireless, tiresome efforts to make box-office capital out of the Roman Catholic priest, the movies have trotted out the crooning priest (Bing Crosby in Going My Way}, the labor priest (Karl Maiden in On the Waterfront), the whisky priest (Henry Fonda in The Fugitive...
...breaks into the Spectacular field with 14 90-minute shows, starting next month with a Judy Garland production, to be followed by three Noel Coward shows, two musical dramas starring Bing Crosby. Ed Murrow's See It Now will include TV "profiles" of New York and Paris and a camera's report on Africa. Omnibus goes musical with Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness...
Whatever the sound was, it was most consciously contrived. From Bing, of course, Frank borrowed the intense care for the lyrics, and a few of those bathtub sonorities the microphone takes so well. From Tommy Dorsey's trombone he learned to bend and smear his notes a little, and to slush-pump his rhythms in the long dull level places. From Billie Holliday he caught the trick of scooping his attacks, braking the orchestra, and of working the "hot acciaccatura"-the "N'awlins" grace note that most white singers flub...