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...BING CROSBY PRO-AM GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Final rounds of the annual tournament at Pebble Beach, Calif. Don Massengale is defending champion...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Cole Porter's classic Anything Goes (1956) is crooned to life again by Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Jean-maire, Mitzi Gaynor and Phil Harris...
English tailors have made a science of measurements. Consider Walter Norton of Norton & Sons, who tailored a shooting suit for Bing Crosby with "plus twos" and also suits for Jack Paar and ten U.S. ambassadors. First, Norton snaps Polaroid pictures of the client front and side. Then, he drapes him in a Rube Goldberg contraption made out of wire rods, cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention...
...Bing plays host for the Crosby clan, Bob Newhart, Cyd Charisse and Kate Smith on a Christmas special...
Robert Drew culled one hour from the staggering total of 55 he had shot, managed to catch the frantic, discombobulated rehearsals of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even...