Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a time when Bing Crosby used to explode, "My son Gary a crooner? Never!" Last week Der Bingle's explosion was muffled down to a tongue-in-cheek...
...Bing had never exactly discouraged Gary, the eldest of his four kids, from joining in the free-for-all barbershopping that goes on around the Crosby house. In the last couple of years, he even let him appear occasionally on his radio show. Bing wasn't really worried about Gary turning groaner; Gary was too interested in football. And for a career, said Bing, "he has told me he wants to study animal husbandry and agriculture and become a cattle man-and I highly approve of that." But after strapping (180 Ibs.), 17-year-old Gary guest-starred...
What did Gary think of his new success? "He hasn't heard about it yet," said Bing by telephone from his Elko County (Nev.) ranch. "He's just about the best haying hand I've got, and I'm not going to take a chance on my new hay crop by telling him until...
...season. Singing her first Zerlina in Don Giovanni, she left Met audiences goggle-eyed: the prodigy had become a person. Her Zerlina was so appealing, apt and masterful that it almost seemed as if Mozart had written it for her. On the strength of that performance, Met Manager Rudolf Bing has assigned her a prize role next season in the Met's first Fledermaus in 45 years...
...acres of Sarasota citrus groves, to boost Snow Crop's total Florida groves to about 17,000 acres. From its own groves and from purchases from independent Towers this year, Snow Crop will can almost 10 million gallons of fresh orange concentrate, putting it ahead of Bing Crosby's Minute Maid (TIME...