Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, tearful Crooner Johnnie Ray went under a surgeon's knife for treatment of an abscess in his right foot. Cause of the infection: in an accident possible only in the 20th century, Ray strolled beside a Las Vegas swimming pool last July and speared himself, olivelike, on a dropped Martini toothpick...
Sued for $1,051,400 by three people injured when his $12,250 Mercedes-Benz collided with their car last year, Cinemactor-Crooner Bing (The Country Girl) Crosby got set for the trial in a Los Angeles court, then abruptly decided not to make a fight of it. Though still denying the other side's charge that he was tipsy and driving recklessly when the predawn smashup happened. Defendant Crosby instructed his lawyers to settle the case out of court. They...
Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 25, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Marie Pier-angeli), 22, elfin-faced, Italian-born cinemactress; in St. Timothy's Roman Catholic Church, in Hollywood...
Leaving her two children, Yasmin, 4 (daughter of Prince Ali Khan), and Rebecca, 9 (daughter of Orson Welles), frolicking at Lake Tahoe, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, with her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, in tow, journeyed to nearby Reno for the climax of a Versailles among divorce settlements. Yasmin was the prize. For her, Prince Aly signed away a princess's ransom of the estimated $500 million fortune of his aging (77) father, Ago Khan, who dotes on Yasmin and will treasure her as one of his four heirs.* To Rita will come more than $1,500 a month...
...Crooner Eddie Fisher, 25, discovered that he had a distinguished fan. In Manhattan last week, President Eisenhower heard Eddie sing at the Hotel Sheraton Astor, then delayed his own television speech and asked Fisher to do another verse of Irving Berlin's Count Your Blessings for the TV audience...