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DATE WITH DANA………. COMING TO PLAY GOLF THIS SUMMER? BING CROSBY was the Big Daddy of them all - all the crooners we know and hear today. Before him, there had been numerous singers all “giving out” - but when the 1930’s proved the New Age of broadcasting and the microphone, it was Bing Crosby’s rich, sonorous voice, coupled with his enviably relaxed, easy going style, that captured audiences countrywide into becoming his lifelong faithful fans. He was a wonderful warbler who made every song a pleasure to listen to, such was the measure of his magnitude. All his life Crosby had been a keen golfer. In his old age he brought himself to Britain for a golfing holiday, where , after a good round around the Course, he suddenly collapsed and died, leaving his widow Kathy to comment : “He enjoyed the game so much, that if there was a good way for him to go, then that was it.” Bing Crosby was a venerable established star when he met newcomer Kathryn Grant at the film studio. They formed such a strong bond that Kathryn decided this was the man she was going to marry, Bing, however, was a widower with three sons already grown to Kathryn’s age. A cautious man, he was very undecided whether a second venture into matrimony would be right for him. Kathryn, however, had one firm idea. There followed so much will -they won’t -they won’t they will-they and so many to-ings and fro-ings that by the time Bing was finally persuaded that a fresh marriage would be good for him—when the pair actually arrived for the wedding ceremony the air was so fraught they would scarcely LOOK at one another AND they were barely even SPEAKING to each other!! The marriage only lasted thirty years.
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