Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...those who wondered where Father Bing O'Crosby went when he walked off into the night, Leo McCarey has provided an answer, hopefully attempting to repeat his former success. But his often knavish imitation gives his audience the uneasy feeling of seeing the same movie twice, while his efforts to differ in details lead him to inconsistency...
Princess Elizabeth, Britain's 19-year-old heiress presumptive, who recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...
...Bells of St. Mary's (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman; TIME...