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...DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, author and widow of high-flying pioneer Charles Lindbergh; in Passumpsic, Vermont. Five volumes of best-selling diaries and 21 books of prose and poetry won Morrow Lindbergh fame in her own right, but her marriage to the man who completed the first transatlantic solo flight put the shy Smith College graduate in the public eye. "The first couple of the skies," as they were known, flew record-breaking trips across Latin America and Asia. But the 1932 kidnapping and death of their baby Charlie ended the idyll. Moreover, the couple's isolationist statements before...
...surely lacked demonstrable dreamboat features. His slight shoulders led down to a slight paunch. His hair was already receding. In his first solo film, "I Surrender, Dear," there is a brief shot, as he runs from a house, of Bing without his toupee; not a pretty sight. Often he was too lazy to apply a hairpiece, so in movies he'd wear hats or caps with little plot justification. Most noticeable were his Babar ears; they made him look, one studio exec complained, "like a taxi with both doors open." (Crosby, who refused the mogul's demand that he have...
...softened) Crosby's public personality, as other scripters would do in the films. Giddins says Carroll allowed "Bing to be Bing, only more so." He added flourishes to Crosby's facility for mixing sesquipedalian phraseology with hipster slang. One tangy aside was apparently not written by Carroll. After a solo by one-armed trumpeter Wingy Malone, Bing quipped, "Man, that was dirtier than a Russian horse-doctor's valise...
...Broadway or vaudeville stage; reading dialogue was nothing new to them. Crosby had read only lyrics: he was a singer, part of Paul Whiteman's trio The Rhythm Boys. Who could even guess that, when the group broke up in 1930, Bing would be successful as a solo singer, let alone as a movie idol...
...Sean ("Puffy") Combs has been living the hip-hop high life for a few years now: money, guns, cars and one very fancy girlfriend. But the absence of Puffy paramour J.Lo from his shooting trial has prompted speculation that he may be doing some time solo. Illustration for TIME by Edel Rodriguez...