Word: binging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between radio broadcasts in the near future, Bing Crosby planned to enter a hospital, have his appendix removed...
Keenan Wynn hired them to play at a Christmas party. Bing Crosby heard them, stepped up and ripped off a little scat singing with them. He thought they were so good that last week he put them in the guest spot on his CBS radio program...
Billy Rose's syndicated column, "Pitching Horseshoes," was missing last week from the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 323,661). The censored column was an open letter to the Metropolitan Opera's general manager-elect, Rudolf Bing, which most of Rose's 350 U.S. papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed...
Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...
...simulated incomprehension. His personality has elements of other U.S. entertainers who have won a peculiarly affectionate place in American hearts. Like Will Rogers, Godfrey is the embodiment of the homespun debunker; but where Will fired salvos at Congress, Godfrey snipes at the lesser game of admen and pressagents. Like Bing Crosby, he blends urbanity with the slippered ease of a small-town family man. Like George M. Cohan, he is a Yankee Doodle flag waver...