Word: groaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite sports. And not long ago a visitor to Allen's office spotted on a handy shelf a book called Touch Football.-A Los Angeles jury mulled it over for an hour and a half, decided that' toupee-topped Dennis Crosby, 26, one of the Old Groaner's four singing sons, fathered the illegitimate three-year-old daughter of Hollywood Divorcee Marilyn Scott...
High Time. An amiable spoof of the old-fashioned campus musicals brings Old Groaner Bing Crosby back to college to fill the gap in his career as a tycoon. Along the way, Bing also gets a refresher course in romance. No harm done...
...Groaner Bing Crosby decided to dispose of one of his five domains (including two cattle ranches), mostly because he is kept too busy trying to live on them all. For sale: Bing's 14-room seashore mansion, built in 1948, overlooking California's Pebble Beach Golf Course. Asking price: $250,000. Since the Crosby clan operates as a sort of junior cartel, the real estate agent on the deal is Mary Rose Pool, Bing's sister...
...Aging Groaner Bing Crosby, 56, never to be mistaken for a woolly-headed aborigine, is still something of a national figure in Australia, though he has never traveled Down Under. But Bing was less a mystery voice in Sydney last week after his brother, Orchestra Leader Bob Crosby, 46, got to reminiscing about the Crosby clan. Actually, said Bob, "I was 14 before I knew Bing was my brother and not my father." Why had Bing not come to Australia for a hero's welcome? "He'll never visit Australia until they put planes on tracks...
Among the familiar musicals that seem determined to survive the summer: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello! a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, the air-conditioned perennials are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic, the savage piece about three women v. a spineless...