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...Kennedy eventually betrayed Sinatra by choosing to stay with the more wholesome Bing Crosby during a visit to California. It was a humiliation that sent Sinatra rightward, into the arms of Nixon, then Reagan, which is where a lot of his audience was going in any case. Years had to pass before he could re-emerge entirely as a lodestar of bipartisan style. "I am," he once said, "a thing of beauty." It was a complicated beauty, but he had a point...
High Society (1956) What the Rat Pack movies should have been: briskly plotted and musically irrepressible. A musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, with Frank joined by Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong. Bing/Frank duet "Well Did You Evah" is sheer...
FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing, the pen name of the author of Lloyd: What Happened (Crown; 416 pages; $25.95), has a day job as a manager for a big media company. So unlike most business journalists, he has experience with the kinds of ugly transactions the rest of us merely chronicle...
...done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate lizard amusing...
They came across my desk bing, bang, boom: three books that, years from now, may prove to have been the clearest sell signal ever missed. It was spring 1996, and, yes, the stock market has been levitating since then. Sometimes sell signals are early. The first book was by David and Tom Gardner, a brother act in jester hats with the catchy title of Motley Fool Investment Guide. The second, The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide, was by Matt Seto, 17. The third was the now infamous debut, Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide...