Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants claim the sale of more hairpieces per capita than anywhere in the U.S., most of the buyers...
...Bing Crosby Show (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). With Mary Martin...
...shrewd, ambitious, high-speed operator who somehow manages to be a popular fellow nonetheless. He plays softball with Pancho Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...
...basis of a sincere approach to the spirit and tradition of the songs being sung, which, surprisingly to many, is an extremely complex and difficult achievement. A good voice is incidental to the attainment of this goal, though it doesn't hurt. One might criticize Bing Crosby's style of singing opera even if he were to hit all the notes properly...
...despite the perennial popularity of Sherlock Holmes, dripping shag tobacco from his well-blackened clay pipe; despite the graceful pipemanship of Bing Crosby; even despite the theories of Freud about what pipe smoking really means-pipe smoking is on the decline...