Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average Phonevision picture was seen by 25% of the potential audience. Variations ranged from a top of 60% to a low of 8% one evening when the "free" TV competition was the Robinson-La Motta fight. Most popular film of the experimental series: Bing Crosby's 1947 comedy, Welcome Stranger. Least popular: a 1947 comedy, Undercover Maisie...
...Lucky Stars (Sun. 10:45 p.m., ABC) is a folksy, unsponsored 15 minutes with Paul Whiteman spinning 20-year-old records and reminiscing about the good old days ("I can remember when Bing Crosby had hair and was a tenor"). Teen-Ager Junie Keegan asks the questions of "Pops" Whiteman, and treats his answers with the proper daughterly respect...
Newest member of the plug lobby is the U.N.'s Mogens Skot-Hansen, a hustling Danish moviemaker, who persuaded a producer to make Dorothy McGuire a U.N. translator in Mister 880 ("She is a nice good girl and gives us a good name"). Thanks to his efforts, Bing Crosby, playing a journalist in the forthcoming Here Comes the Groom, will be shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still...
...heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those on sale by this week: Red Foley (Decca), Herb Jeffries (Coral), Vaughan Monroe (Victor), Bing Crosby (Decca...
...Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing does not agree on Cost; next season he will stage it at the Met for the first time in 23 years...