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...Bing Crosby was neck-&-neck with Frank Sinatra. Week after a truck full of The Voice's recordings was attacked by hijackers in The Bronx (TIME, Feb. 25), thieves in Brooklyn swiped a truckload of The Toupee's platters...
Road to Utopia (Paramount) is the fourth and farthest north in the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour road shows.* It also had the Paramount gagmen scraping the barrel bottom...
Miss Fiorenza Quartararo, a San Franciscan of Italian parentage, had made only two big-league appearances before: once when she filled in for Helen Traubel on a day's notice at the Hollywood Bowl, once on Bing Crosby's radio program. She called herself Florence Alba then. When she won the $1,000 Caruso Award last fall and was hired by the Met, the Met persuaded her to go back to her original name. She will make her formal Metropolitan debut next month-as Micaela...
...Brother Bing, 41, ducked reporters in Manhattan last week. The Groaner had refused to go back on the Kraft Cheese Co.'s Music Hall after his summer vacation; the company claimed that his contract didn't expire until 1950. Bing and his business-managing brothers, Larry and Everett, insisted that the contract was technically dead. And until Der Bingle could name his own terms, including the right to transcribe his programs weeks before they are broadcast, he was deter mined to cheese it. Kraft took its grievance to court...
Young Brother Bob, 32, returned to the air after 14 months as a marine in the South Pacific. His sponsor: young Henry Ford II, who hoped that Bob, 'with his only faintly Bing-like crooning and corny chatter, could capitalize on Bing's absence, sell young America on postwar Ford convertible sport roadsters...