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Many of the names got pinned on him by his pal Bob Hope. Crosby and Hope became linked by the sequence of seven Road pictures made with Dorothy Lamour. Indeed, they were coupled ever after the very first in 1940, The Road to Singapore. Bing and Bob were frequently engaged onstage in a gibing dialogue that was itself like the soft shoe they also did together-once while singing, hands joined, Mairzy Doats. "People will think we're in love," Crosby sang to a throng of troops during World War II-and worked in the line...
...among the busiest in Washington, as U.S. bank examiners press their potentially explosive investigation of Bert Lance's financial affairs. The comptroller's lengthy report is due soon, perhaps this week, and could save or squash the powerful budget director, who is Jimmy Carter's old pal, former creditor and longtime close confidant. Says Deputy Comptroller C. Westbrook Murphy: "All we're dealing with is the survival of Bert Lance and the reputation of the President, not to mention the performance of some of the biggest banks in the world...
...people are as pleased with Hollywood's new trend as Producer George Pal, whose sci-fi films of the 1950s regularly won Academy Awards for their special effects. Not only are Pal pictures like The War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951) being rereleased, but the latter is about to be remade by Director John Frankenheimer. Pal himself, now 69, is at work writing a sequel to his 1961 film The Time Machine. Says he: "Star Wars has proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world...
There is the Pearl of the Piedmont, a wide-eyed innocent come to seek her fortune in bustling Charlotte, N.C., and living with her pal, the cheerleader Sis Boombah. There is Mary Ann Singleton, newly arrived in San Francisco and immediately caught up in that city's often kinky lifestyles. In Des Moines, the heroine is Farm Girl Probity Prisswillow who, knowing not what she does, takes a job in a massage parlor. Baby Jill...
...catalyst for this calamity is a silver-haired lawyer named Joel Dolkart. He was G & W's general counsel for al| most 20 years, a bosom pal of Bluhdorn's -and a partner in the Wall Street cor| porate law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Dolkart, a mergers and acquisitions expert with a taste for modern art, was hit with an 89-count indictment in 1974 for stealing $2.5 million through fraudulent checks from law firms representing G&W.* He pleaded guilty to one count of forgery a year ago and was sentenced to a jail term...