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...tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining people it really gets to be part of you; it's your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Song & Dance Man | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...make her U.S. debut in La Traviata at the Metropolitan. Last week she canceled the contract. Reason: a clause which provided that her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an industrialist, would make the trip with her. The clause could not be fulfilled, despite the efforts of Met-Manager Rudolf Bing. The U.S. Consulate in Venice refused to give Giovanni a visa on the grounds that he could not prove intention to return to Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some of the distinctiveness of his early bu-bu-bu-boos to a node on his vocal cords, Clooney gets a sound that no competitor quite duplicates. In the ballad business, where distinctiveness is worth more than a clear high C, her voice is instantly recognizable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Metropolitan's Bing gave the season a bang by doing all but one of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Lining up Hollywood's Bing for Figaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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