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...Born. To Groaner Bing Crosby, 55, and Cinemactress Kathy Grant, 25: their first daughter, second child (Bing's sixth); in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Frances. Weight...
...Bing Crosby Show (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Groaner could fill up the time by himself. But he has Louis Armstrong, George Shearing and Frank Sinatra to help...
...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 his sons' attitude toward money, said the multimillionaire Groaner, seemed silly in the extreme. "It doesn't mean a thing to Gary-and Philip, Dennis and Linny are very tight, so tight it horrifies...
...their act for pay. ("The Sahara is new for us. We used to hang out down the line a piece. The Tropicana supplies Crosby wives wholesale.") Impeccably turned out in silk suits, ruffled shirts and elevator shoes, Gary, Lindsay, Philip and Dennis Crosby bounce onstage to prove that the Groaner's kids can make it on their own. But their father is far from forgotten. "Well," growls Gary after one close-harmony number, "that's pretty good for four boys trying to get ahead without the old man's money." After another effort, Mack the Knife, Gary...
...Army announced that Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, now driving a Jeep for a platoon in an armored outfit in West Germany, was recently promoted from private first class to specialist fourth class. His $26.93 pay hike upped Millionaire Presley's total service salary (including overseas pay) to a cool $135.30 a month. But no sooner did Elvis put on his fancy new golden-eagle arm patch than an untoward infirmity, long predicted by his detractors, laid him low: his tonsils gave out. At week's end Soldier Presley was recovering from his throat infection, and doctors planned...