Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, newshens of the Women's Press Club voted Errol Flynn and Rita Hayworth* the "least cooperative" actor and actress of the year. Runners-up: Bing Crosby (a perennial) and Shirley Temple. The "most cooperative": Dorothy Lamour, past mistress of the sarong, and Glenn Ford, Rita's most recent screen leading...
...setbacks in its struggle with CBS, NBC now hopes to recoup by making a talent raid on its ex-stepchild, ABC. Said Eiges: "NBC is negotiating with 'the greatest name in the entertainment world, an international figure.' " At week's end, the "name" was revealed-Bing Crosby...
...Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable...
...boss Ed Crump's machine has split the party into bitter halves, and the Republicans have coincidentally emerged with one of the most dubiously-colorful attractions to grace GOP politics in the South since Reconstruction days. This character is Roy ("Ah don't know nothin' about polities"). Acuff, the Bing Crosby of commercial hillbillyism, whose nasal crooning and asserted stunts have drawn huge crowds all over the state. Acuff is running for governor on the GOP ticket, but his immense popularity may drag the senatorial candidate, Carroll Recce, into high office along with...
...middle of a round of golf one day last spring, Capitalist John Hay Whitney and Crooner Bing Crosby began to talk about-of all things-frozen orange juice concentrate. "Jock" Whitney thought he had hold of a good business proposition, and by the time they had got to the 19th Bing was all ears. Last week the Whitney-dominated Vacuum Foods Corp. (Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate) announced the deal they made...