Bing Crosby
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Ken Venturi a friend to golf, golfers
simply as The Match. Mark Frost wrote a book about it in 2007, and The Match remains a great read for any golfer. Prior to Bing Crosby’s annual Clambake, a couple of well-heeled California business moguls arranged the game. It pitted the two best players of 5/22/13 from Forsyth News Read more »
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Bing Crosby + Nazis = Silicon Valley and Today's Music
The New Yorker pulls together what seems to be completely unrelated developments into a very cogent argument that states without Bing Crosby and the Nazis, our technology--and the way we consume music--would be very, very different today. The nineteen-forties from AlanCross.ca Read more »
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City Room: After 45 Years, a Song of Pain Is a Song of Comfort
at office parties. Mom was home, trying to keep it all together. To spark the spirit, she’d play holiday records by Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and Harry Belafonte. But the B-side of one album was a weepy tune that made him feel as if the singer – Nat King from The New York Times Read more »
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“Mad Men”: An Obsessive’s Guide to Cultural References (Season 6, Ep. 7)
which ended with the tragic death of Robert Kennedy . Previously, we’ve seen mentions of the Vietnam War in the media, Bing Crosby , and some groovy clubs in downtown New York. This week, it was the mention of a recently cancelled television series, a critically from ArtInfo Read more »
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Booting Up: You Can’t Use Square to Sell Guns Any More
crooner Bing Crosby might’ve been a total dick, but it turns out he was a pretty smart angel investor. Guess the Biebs isn’t so special, after all! [New Yorker] “They became a virtual criminal flash mob, going from machine to machine, drawing as much money from Betabeat Read more »
