Word: groaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four grown boys have long since been on their own, so now the Groaner is breaking in a new generation. Harry Lillis Crosby III, 7, came on with the old man for a taped Christmas production of ABC's Hollywood Palace, crooned through a treble version of Oh Come, Little Children that had Papa Bing Crosby, 61, muttering proudly backstage: "Say, that little tiger did all right." While the boys were hamming it up for TV, Mama Kathy Grant Crosby took Mary Frances, 6, up to the Hyatt Music Theater near San Francisco to make her debut...
Last week's Crosby was the funniest yet. "Isn't this just great?" crooned the Groaner. "Isn't this just wonderful?"-as a 50-m.p.h. winter gale whipped across California's Monterey Peninsula. One TV tower collapsed completely, and the rest were shaking so badly that the players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema...
...silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned by Bill Harrah-who is also Reno's Ferrari dealer...
Born. To Bobby Darin, 25, Bronx-born groaner (Mack the Knife), and Sandra Dee, 19, blonde, bubbly cinema starlet (Tammy Tell Me True): their first child, a son; in Hollywood...
...Bing Crosby Show (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Groaner's guests: Maurice Chevalier, Carol Lawrence...