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...last-place Pittsburgh Pirates, who have not won a National League pennant since 1927, were sold last week for about $2,250,000. The buyer: a syndicate which included Crooner Bing Crosby. The sale put Crosby in the same game, but not the same league, with his old running mate, Comedian Bob Hope, who two months ago bought a chunk of the Cleveland Indians...
...star died, was disinherited by the will; most of the estate's $1 million will be used to run the California ranch as a public park. Meanwhile, the public turned out by the thousand for a full-fashioned Hollywood funeral. The organist played Twilight on the Trail, and Crooner Rudy Vallee sang sad songs...
...Love Me? (20th Century-Fox) is a tuneful, lushly colored, handsomely dressed, unusually foolish musical. Its three chief actors: popular Trumpeter Harry James, who makes hardly any pretense at acting but blurts his trumpet often enough and loud enough to please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether...
...game, according to well-informed authorities reached late this afternoon, but the colorful parade of the contestants is expected to precede the athletic event, oldest consecutive struggle in the Western Hemisphere. The Lineups CRIME LAMPY Sturgeon, p. s.s., Zwoncus, O. J. Loveit, 2b. c., Zwoncus, O. K. Crooner, 1b. 1b., Zwoncus, O. L. Golly, l.f. 2b., Zwoncus, O. M. Loose, e. 3b., Zwoncus, O. N. Bunhum, r.f. c.f., Zwoncus, O. O. Walk, s.s. p., Zwoncus, O. P. Trobie., 3b. l.f., Zwoncus, O. Q. Chainless, c.f. r.f., Zwoncus, O. R. Thresk, s.f. s.f., Zwoncus...
...haired Charles Trenet, was a big hit, regardless. In the audience, and clapping hard, were such diverse celebrities as Lana Turner and Leon Henderson. The language of mugging, strutting and rolling the eyes was universal, as Maurice Chevalier discovered before him. After four encores. Fiance's No. i crooner bubbled in French: "In France they understand what I sing. Here they understand me." He took three showers "to calm down...