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"I knew him when!" reflects der Bingle, shining up to brother Bob after performing for him and 5,000 other Marines at Camp Pendleton. The Andrews Sisters may roll out the barrel with Bing in the Pacific theater this summer.
"Gl love to eat!" croons Crosby to Astaire, who had a unique accompanist when he danced before Gen. Eisenhower: Guitarist Gen. Spaotz! Sister Adeje saw Fred for the first time in five years.
Oscars to Bing for "Going My Way," to Ingrid for "Gaslight." They co-star in "Bells of St. Mary." 1943 winner Paul Lukas flew in from Mexico to do the honors for Bing, got sick at last minute and couldn't make it.
After his trip, London headlined BING WENT THE STRINGS OF OUR HEARTS. Hope comforts Frankie, says he'll ploy a minister in his next pic — "I'm Going Your Way, Too!" (That's Judy G.)
"He'll never make good!" they warned Dixie Lee when she married Bing. (Life Story, concluded.)
■ Bing Crosby is Hollywood's modern miracle man but for him that's very easy. Winning this year's Academy Oscar topped off a fifteen-year movie, radio and record career in which Bing has collected every honor in those Big Threes of show business. Along the way he has broken more entertainment records than a bull in a music shop. And today, like Old Man River, Bing just keeps rolling along. Crooners come and Swoon Kings go, but Bing goes on forever.
This eternal success baffles even Bine himself and at
forty-two he still wonders when he'll wake up. But it's not such a mystery. Bing's life proves he's a natural, a genius, a wonder boy. As an Irish Catholic kid in Spokane, Washington, he was an easy winner in everything he tried. A deceptively pretty boy, he beat up every bully who challenged him. Rohy-pofy and lazy looking, he won swim and golf championships, made Gonzaga high school and college teams like rolling off a log. Never lazy, Bing hustled at dozens of tough jobs for his spending money and planned {Continued on page 72)
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