Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost exhibition of how he thought a hotel should be opened for business-and publicity. To 300 of the biggest wigs he could find, he sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...
Bags of peanuts in hand, Bing Crosby and three little Crosbys clumped into the dressing room of the spring-training Pittsburgh Pirates. Said Part-Owner (25%) Crosby to Pitcher Kirby Higbe, as he popped a peanut into his mouth: "How's things, Kirby?" With a shudder, a Pirate locker man grabbed Bing just in time to arrest the flight of a second peanut. Bad luck, explained the locker man-eating peanuts in a dressing room...
This season, though no one thinks they are championship material, the Pirates are looking better. Part-Owner Crosby seemed pleased with them, and the feeling was mutual. In pre-game practice at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, the Pirates obligingly rifled 80% of their hits squarely at Bing. Crosby, a fair country ballplayer, stopped the ones that wouldn't knock out his front teeth, clowned on the rest of them. He hit fungoes, played around with a catcher's mitt (see cut). Then Bing watched morosely while his peanut-jinxed Pirates lost to the Chicago Cubs...
...Bing bong bell, It's ten and only one can tell. The master of the metropolis Fits his name quite well...
...Golfer Bing Crosby was elected to buy champagne at the Cypress Point clubhouse on Monterey Peninsula, Calif. On the 16th hole-222 yards, with a 200-yard carry-over across an inlet of the Pacific-he shot a hole-in-one. "We were shooting into the sun," he explained to the press afterward. "So I just stood up and smacked one blind...