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Harry Lillis Crosby, "The Groaner" to his friends, is also happily married to a trig, blonde lady who was once an actress...
...characteristically, the happy-go-lucky Groaner manages to convey the impression that anyone could do the trick...
...with The Groaner trucking around the studio stage in an old pair of slacks and the tails of his gaudy shirts hanging out, kidding the men in the control booth or joking with wheel-chaired Connie Boswell...
...nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes to go on. Jack Kapp, for whom Bing makes Decca records, recalls that The Groaner's singing is so facile he recorded the complicated Ballad for Americans in four hours. The same song took Paul Robeson three weeks...
...records of 89,000 mental patients who had passed through Massachusetts hospital doors in the turbulent years 1917-33. Last week he published New Facts on Mental Disorders (C. C. Thomas; $4.50), a statistical treatise on insanity in the U. S. His facts were startling, his conclusions encouraging. No groaner, Dr. Dayton believes that "the great mass of the population possesses a mental balance . . . truly remarkable...