Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were times when people wondered if he was real. Crowds stopped to gawk at the tall, brown gladiator as he ambled along the Via Veneto, grinning, waving, talking to everybody whether they understood him or not. He captured Bing Crosby and went everywhere with him arm in arm. He posed with Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, shook hands solemnly, and crowed: "So long, Floyd, be seein' you-in about two more years." He brushed off a Russian reporter who prodded him about the plight of U.S. Negroes: "Man, the U.S.A. is the best country in the world, counting yours...
...frowned, stepped back, muttered for the critter to buzz off. Eventually, the message got through. But as the bee departed, Palmer, standing five feet away, saw the ball move-maybe the width of a blade of grass. Oh Lord! Three weeks before, Palmer had been disqualified in the Bing Crosby National for breaking a rule. He huddled with officials. If he was somehow responsible for the ball moving, it would cost him one stroke; if not, there would be no penalty...
...Bing Crosby, 58, mending in Santa Monica after an operation for kidney stones: Brendan Behan, 37, diabetic but enthusiastically tosspot Irish playwright; into a Dublin hospital for the fourth time in 18 months. Moaned Wife Beatrice: "It's the usual trouble-too much gargle...
...Bing, Bing, Bing. Taylor's first business lessons came from his Irish-descended grandfather, an adventurous Ottawa financier. Says Taylor: "My grandfather's mind worked like mine-bing, bing, bing." After the 1929 crash and a brief career as a partner in an investment firm, young Taylor took over management of the struggling Brading Breweries, the last of his grandfather's besieged holdings. He quickly saw that small breweries would never survive, began quaffing down rivals with mergers and acquisitions that eventually produced Canadian Breweries...
Last week, in California's $35,000 Bing Crosby tournament, Oregon's Bob Duden, 42, gave golfers something new to discuss. A little-known pro who has never won a major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot...