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Larry Crosby, Bing's inventor brother, announced that he had built a mousetrap that was apparently no better (see cut). "I've had the thing for years," he confessed, "and I haven't even had a nibble, not even from a mouse...
...phone begins trilling almost immediately. It is Joan Crawford, it is Orson Welles, it is Jerry Wald, it is Doris Day, it is Y. Frank Freeman (a Paramount vice president), it is Hedda's great friend Bing Crosby, it is every story "planter" in town. Hedda talks rapidly and constantly, hammering and wheedling angles out of reluctant stars, practically Claghorning the pressagents off the wire. At 11 she calls her secretary, Treva Davidson, and begins to dictate. It takes her about an hour and a half to do 800 words. Sometimes she does two or three columns...
...liked the same swing band (Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first time since...
...cold-water flat." She scans with a warmly attentive eye her 500 weekly fan letters (suggested one: "Give us lots of love and philosophy"). Mixed in with the love, philosophy, recipes, and "reviews of all the proper books," Flossy also gives them an occasional unscheduled laugh: e.g., when Bing Crosby visited her show, her eyelashes almost fell off when she learned that a baseball game could last longer than nine innings...
...jumped into seven figures. In the past year the company has taken on 70 new affiliates; in the past month, ten. Such networkers as Burns & Allen, Lum & Abner, have gone on KBS platters to "fill the holes" in their network coverage. Come fall, Sillerman has hopes of signing Bing Crosby and Jack Benny...