Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with one eye fixed on the ratings, network executives guillotined a number of old standbys. Mr. Ed has finally closed his trap. Jack Benny will have no regular show for the first time since he started on radio 33 years ago. Neither will Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Paar, Bing Crosby or Joey Bishop. Also missing will be the sophisticated Rogues, the historically interesting Profiles in Courage, and the always dramatically cogent Defenders. Among the whole haul of new shows, only one appears in concept to have any chance of duplicating the originality of that departed trio. The Trials...
...etched shapes of the famed Monterey cypresses, which need yield nothing in beauty to Italy's justly celebrated sea pines. Deer wander across the golf course near Del Monte Lodge, the sumptuous peninsula hotel. Pebble Beach is a favored course of such diverse luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Bing Crosby...
...portrait of Actress Joanne Woodward for a Broadway signboard, and his view of women and the world has been Brobdingnagian ever since. Says Rosenquist of his work: "I'm interested in contemporary vision-the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing-bang! Bing-bang! I don't do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences." F-111 is thus his own superbillboard illustration of modern industrial culture...
...Colonial National Invitation golf tournament; at Fort Worth. Tied for second at the start of the final round -postponed for two days by heavy rains-Crampton fired a four-under-par 66 that gave him a three-stroke victory, his second of 1965 (he also won the Bing Crosby National) and by far the richest of his career: first-place money...
Then, in 1959, the payola scandal struck. Freed was indicted for accepting $30,000 in bribes from six record companies for pushing their releases. Rock 'n' roll faltered; record sales fell off 30%. Crooned Bing Crosby: "My kind of music is coming back...