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Reclining in his rocking chair, he looked like a middle-aged man at the end of a long day, but when he opened his mouth, he was the master entertainer. Bing Crosby's topnotch ABC special last week swayed along with rocking-chair ease; its spare (but expensive) sets and casual tone made the usual frenetic TV variety shows look sick by comparison. With Crooner Dean Martin, Gospel Shouter Mahalia
...creamy package deal with ABC involving about $2,000,000, Bing will do two hour-long shows a year for five years, also turn out ten filmed shows, for which he will act only as producer. Groans Bing: "I know I can't get by much longer singing." Many who heard him last week will howl in disagreement...
...There is no opera in America worth speaking of outside New York City," Met Manager Rudolf Bing was quoted as saying in an interview last week. The only exceptions he conceded: Chicago and San Francisco. But even they, he felt, do not have long enough seasons or sufficient facilities to bring them up to the level of the Met or the best European houses...
...already working as an office boy and part-time announcer at a station in Jackson (WIBM) for $3 a week. Oldtimers still remember his style. "This is Jack Buh-Buh-Buh-Boo Paar, your announcer," he would croon, or "This is your young and popular announcer, Bing Paar." He kept a discarded microphone in the attic at home. It was hooked up to nothing, but he sat before it by the hour, reading aloud from plays, books, magazines. At 18 he left home and began to bounce around the country on his own, handling microphones in Indianapolis, Youngstown. Cleveland. Pittsburgh...
Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 54, patriarchal tycrooner, horseman, low-handicap golfer, and Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant (formerly Olive Kathryn Grandstaff of West Columbia, Texas), 24: a son, their first child (he has four other sons by his first wife, the late Musicomedienne Dixie Lee); in Hollywood. Name: Harry Lillis III. Nickname: Tex. Weight...