Word: binge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 pm ) Visits to the homes of three of Bing Crosby's sons-Phillip, Dennis and Lindsay...
...rehabilitation-are equally unconvincing. Despite these lapses in motivation, Author O'Connor sympathetically conveys much of the priest's lot-the repetitions, the qualms, the drudgeries, the temptations, the loneliness, all adding up to a daily testing not glimpsed in the stereotypes of the Barry Fitzgerald-Bing Crosby order...
...whole catalogue of gifts bestowed on it by the Old World-the horse, borsch, Rudolf Bing, pizza, trial by jury, Pfannkuchen, the English sparrow and crab grass. Most arrived more or less by acceptable means, but the suburban affliction defined as "a grass with creeping or decumbent stems which root freely at the nodes" sneaked in. How it made the trip is a mystery. Perhaps, many years ago, it stole out of some Portuguese garden into the sea, and, just following its nodes, crept along the ocean floor like a living cable till it reached The Bronx. Not satisfied there...
...shake hands. Phillip recalls that when they were children on their father's ranch at Elko, Nev., "there wasn't much to do of a night except sit on the front porch and harmonize." They do, uncertainly, in husky voices that resemble each other too much and Bing's too little. Punching shoulders, mugging at clinkers and bouncing all the while, they work like piano movers to match their father's ease, the height of which is to move the fingers in a finger-snapping motion without actually snapping the fingers. But their nonchalance...
...brothers close, "as a tribute to the man who made this act possible," with an art-rending groan of When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day. When Bing caught, or was caught by, the act out West (he sees his sons only rarely), he said diplomatically, "You're doin' fine; don't change a thing." With bookings piled up and the take-home pay close to $1,000 a week per man, there is no reason that they should...