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...last Thursday at 9 p.m. the crooner with the deceptively loafing air and unsinkable savvy put on the first request show for the U.S. Front. He walked through it as usual, easing around the Hollywood studio in a blue slack suit, looking, without his movie toupee, like a rapid-fire kewpie. For MacArthur's artillerymen he sang Those Caissons Go Rolling Along-and added "those 155s keep dishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bing to Bataan | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

This procedure, plus his capacity for shooting fanatical golf in the yos, nets him a pretty penny. But not from Bing Crosby. The crooner has bested him so often that Hope calls him Trader Horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Buck Privates this dizzy pair of former burlesque comedians laid down a barrage of slapstick that was often agonizingly, if familiarly, funny. In The Navy their wacky, old-style fast talk gets snagged in the bony vocalizing of the Andrews Sisters, in the infantile attempts of Crooner Powell to get away from it all, in thousands of dollars worth of Universal props. Despite these expensive handicaps, sour-pussed Bud Abbott and outsized Lou Costello manage to resurrect many a guffaw for low-comedy devotees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 30, 1941 | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Married. Barbara Bennett, least divorced of Hollywood's Bennett sisters (Barbara, Constance, Joan); and Horse-Opera Player Addison ("Jack") Randall. Her only previous husband was Crooner Morton Downey; Randall's only ex-wife is Louise Stanley (but they were married and divorced twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Divorced. Richard D. Chapman, 30, national amateur golf champion, occasional crooner; by Marjorie Logan Chapman, nightclub-singing descendant of Arthur Middleton, Declaration of Independence signer; in Miami; grounds: desertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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