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H igiiligiit and sidelight? on what has made Bing Crosby the three-time winner of tli e Gold Medal a America'? favorite
BY MAXINE ARNOLD
Chore boy at home — worked on a farm one summer
POLLING the country’s most popular male star is like forecasting the heavyweight championship. No matter who’s in the movie ring with him, Bing Crosby always wins. He packs a mighty golden glove.
He’s now serving a third term as winner of the Gallup Poll. And it’s a pretty safe bet that as sure as the blue of the night meets the gold of another Hollywood day, Crosby will keep coming off champ.
“I’m just a lucky lug,” would be his only comment as to why folks cotten up to a crooner like him.
But ’tain’t so, as we all know. It’s far more than that.
And he’s just as much a champ to ringsiders who work with and for him, too. The studio crew, the cowhands on his Nevada ranch and the help around his Bel-Air home.
One of his staunchest admirers is the Crosbys’ ex-cook, a plump cheerful colored woman named Laverne, who still visits him on the set every Thursday, bringing with her his favorite chocolate cake or a blueberry pie she whipped up out of her present employer’s time and pantry the day before.
As for his secretary Betty Eastman, who’s been with him nine years, his fan mail girl Jean Luther, the switchboard operator “McGee” ( Continued on page 79)
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Golden event: Bing’s parents at the Gold Medal Award function