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...Whom It May Concern. In Loogootee, Ind., Post Office employees opened an unsealed envelope with no address or stamp, found a message: "All my love forever, your old forgetful husband, Bing...
Born. To Philip Crosby, 24, son of Bing, twin brother of Dennis, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 20: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Dixie Lee (after Philip's late mother). Weight...
...have looked strange, but there on the TV screen was Bing Crosby extolling the virtues of a kitchen crammed with American Gas Association appliances. Other times, other channels, John Wayne, Rock Hudson and even Zsa Zsa Gabor clutched Gillette razors, while Teresa Wright praised Scott Paper. Ever since Jack Benny came on saying "JellO again," radio and TV stars have plugged away at their sponsors' commercials, but never before have so many Hollywood big shots-some of whom otherwise shun TV-been available for commercial spieling...
Nabbing the stars, says Walter Bien, head of the commercials assembly line at Four Star Films, "involves a lot of personal ingenuity." Adds another commercial producer: "One time Bing will do it for nothing; another time he wouldn't do it for all the dough in the world." One of the lures is simple friendship: John Wayne agreed to the Gillette spiel because his longtime friend Dick Powell, a co-owner of Four Star, had promised Gillette some big names if it gave him the contract to film its commercials...
...revealingly pensive mood, Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 54, crooned some honest parental doubts to the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywoodsman Joe Hyams. "I guess I didn't do very well in bringing my boys up," brooded Bing. "I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention. I never had much success talking with them. The thing is, it burns me up when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay...