Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oldtime Musicomedy Star Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby) has courted defeat for nearly a decade by mixing self-pity and the bottle. He is, as his wife says, a "cunning drunkard," and he camouflages his self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble is that there are two people who believe in him: his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly), who is too strong for her husband and too weak for her own good, and Broadway Director Bernie Dodd (William Holden), who has to fight both Elgins to give Frank a try at the lead...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS).EdMurrow interviewing Bing Crosby and Mary Margaret McBride...
Even radio made news. Bing Crosby began a new show on CBS Radio that was noteworthy for the fact that he was without a sponsor for his first time on the air. In Philadelphia, Manager Murray Arnold of radio station WPEN was traitorously watching TV when he heard Singer Gordon MacRae suggest to Soprano Dorothy Kirsten that they do a duet as they used to in the old days of radio. "You remember radio," MacRae gratuitously reminded Kirsten. Outraged, Manager Arnold banned the playing of any MacRae records on his radio station...
After Gianelly picked up three yards on first down, reserve tailback Bing Crosby headed off tackle and reached the two before the ball was knocked out of his arms into the end zone and finally recovered by Cochran for a touchdown. End Joe Ross, who had led the line charge on Agnew, booted the extra point giving the varsity its 7-6 half-time lead...
Harvard Coach Jordan will probably spell Joshin with reserve tailbacks Sam Fyock and Bing Crosby. Crosby is a fine defensive player, while Fyock throws a very accurate short pass, and is an outstanding defensive back. If Jordan shifts into an A-formation with the quarterback under center, sophomore Phil Hanghey, who passed the Crimson up the field for its touchdown against Dartmouth, will go in at quarterback