Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glasses, the Aga Khan, 22, customarily a Western-attired fashion plate, sped to the airport in Nice, met a beautiful English visitor, Tracy Pelissier, 19, stepdaughter of famed British Moviemaker Sir Carol (Our Man in Havana) Reed. Then they limousined to the Cannes villa of the Aga's father, Prince Aly Khan, where Tracy will loll in the Riviera sunshine and be subjected to the routine flurry of rumors that she will become her handsome host's begum...
...boys had their father's name going for them, and they had a faint but familiar facsimile of their old man's talent. They also had a fierce urge to prove that they could make it on their own. So Bing Crosby's four sons-Gary, 26, twins Dennis and Phil, 25, and Lindsay, 21-put together a family-style act of songs and smart-aleck chatter and started right at the top of the nightclub circuit. The Crosby boys blew into Las Vegas' Sahara nightclub last month, after three successful weeks at Chicago...
...began to sound less like jokes than angry jeers. By week's end most of the Sahara crowd were coming around, not to laugh but to learn more about the Crosby clan's squabbles. Gary, the boss of the troupe, made sure no one was disappointed. "My father and I," he told a reporter, "just don't get along any more. Dad did some things last Christmas that I felt were far from right...
What Bing had done, Gary did not specify. His remarks only served as reminders that Bing, too, had talked freely and foolishly about himself and his boys a few months before. He had failed as a father, Bing confessed to a Hollywood columnist. Somehow the strict discipline, the skimpy allowances, and long hours of hard ranch work to which he subjected his boys had not had the desired effect. They were forever getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even...
...could take no pride in the mounting box score of their own shenanigans (public brawls, one man dead after numerous drunken-driving accidents, Dennis' paternity suit), but do not think that Bing has set a much better example. Not one of his sons expressed much sorrow that their father had chosen to go fishing out in the Pacific rather than turn up for the opening of their night club act in Las Vegas...