Word: binge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years since his stage debut at Webster, little Harry Crosby, better known as Bing, has been converted into something like a public utility in the entertainment business. After 25 years of fame, Bing's voice, on records, still fills U.S. airwaves, and his name on a movie marquee is as big a draw, year in year out, as any name in Hollywood...
...last the utility has issued a report to the stockholders. Bing, besought by the Satevepost, has dictated his memoirs to Writer Pete Martin, and they have been published under a title, Call Me Lucky, calculated to retouch the custom-made halo of modesty around one of the shrewdest heads in show business. Already published in excerpt by the Post, Call Me Lucky is now off on a climb into bestseller lists...
After high school, Bing went on to Gonzaga University, but when he found out as a pre-law student that he could make as much as any beginning lawyer in town by singing and tooting a kazoo, he quit school and headed for Los Angeles to break into full-time show business. There, two years later, "Pops" Whiteman auditioned his act, and signed Bing and his partner Al Rinker into the big time...
Whiteman added Harry Barris to Bing and Al, called them The Rhythm Boys and featured them on tour. Says Bing: "We laid them out in sections-we fractured them." Bing adds that he also fractured himself with too much booze, too little work, and too many unlikely companions. He woke up after one binge in a mobster hideout with police machine guns playing chopsticks on the door...
After three years, Pops got tired of all the tomfoolery and gave his promising young singers the gate, but a little later the doorway to fame flew wide open for Bing. CBS offered him a sustaining spot, and all at once the little catch in his voice caught the ear of everybody and his little sister...