Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elder of the Bath Presbyterian Church. His most active interest beyond work and family: good food. He imports Cheddar cheese from his district (New York's new 37th-the Binghamton area) and passes it around on the Hill. California's Representative Leroy Johnson keeps him supplied with Bing cherries, which Cole soaks for a year in bourbon to produce his own excellent cherry liqueur...
...apoplectic general, gets seasick watching his protege, MP Mickey Rooney, box on board a battleship, masterminds a championship fight via walkie-talkie and falls for Rooney's beautiful aunt (Marilyn Maxwell), easily the best-looking aunt of the year. Making brief personal appearances in the picture: Bing Crosby, Jack Dempsey, ex-Footballer Tom Harmon. The result, though no main movie event, is a fairly entertaining, lightweight preliminary...
Columnists were busy making a match between Bing Crosby, 48, and blonde, Cinemactress Mono (Dear Wife) Freeman, 26, first introduced to Hollywood by Producer Howard Hughes, who discovered her working as a model in Manhattan. Louella Parsons noted that Mona's mother "is taking shots and getting her passports so she can accompany Mona to Europe. There's a possible picture deal, and, of course, Bing Crosby," who sailed last week on the Queen Elisabeth. Broadway's Danton Walker reported that friends predicted a wedding "at St. Moritz, Switzerland, in December...
...tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining people it really gets to be part of you; it's your life...
...Bing Crosby Show (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Dinah Shore...