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With that million, she has to hire her own announcer, musicians, singers, and stooges. One of the first she hired ("I want to get the bobby-soxers; in fact, I'm going to get the whole damn family in") was Crooner Andy Russell. Her substantial radio success is a surprise to almost everyone but herself ("I've always had to sneak in and make good"). She got her first radio break as a guest on Rudy Vallee's Village Store in 1941, was enough of a hit to be hired as a regular. Then Vallee joined...
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...used to call him the Crooner on the Paramount lot in those days. When Bing Crosby finally got the dressing room next to Coop, his singing suddenly stopped. We never learned...
Sirs: Artificial insemination (TIME, Feb. 26), though perhaps desirable from the standpoint of eugenics, has its dangers. Some popular demagogue might aspire to be the actual father of his country. Some crooner might flood the country with too much of the same thing. ERNEST RASTALL Rockford...
...best picture, Going My Way, drew Oscars for Best Actor Bing Crosby, double-threat star of radio and cinema (see RADIO), for Barry Fitzgerald as best supporting actor, and twice-Oscared Leo McCarey, for best directing and authoring the best original story. Lauding McCarey for helping "a broken-down crooner ... to win," Actor Crosby quipped: "Now if he'd find me a horse to win the Kentucky Derby, it would be the greatest parlay in history." Also be-Oscared: Ethel Barrymore, best supporting actress (None but the Lonely Heart); Margaret O'Brien, best child actress. Wartime note: Oscars...