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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY: 23, 1956.
A DOCTOR TALKS TO CANCER WORRIERS
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
Brighton suffering from breast cancer can be prolonged, often in- deinitely, by surgery coupled with new radio-activo treat
T least a quarter of a million people leading normal lives in Bri- ment. Lain have been cured of ecan-
New super-high voltage eloc- cer, Mr A. Dickson Wright, trie machines and cobalt a leading London surgeon, "bomba" -- globes filled with fold the British Meilical highly radio-active metal-are
saving lives, Association at Brighton.
There seemed to be so many A great many more, even
cheer that almost Thone with lung cancer,
teses: of be cured if they went to the very pleasure can give rise to
nelors enriler.
could
So would many thousa people who
organically MPU helthy but suffer from "esheer - phobia" fear of the lineuse, whieh can make them mentally
1.
Doctors have made many br #les in the fight ngalist can- fer in the lat 10 years then in all the rest of medical his- tory More than £30,000,0ÐU.. year is being ren! on custer research in the world and most hopeful di: coveries are beding made. Mr Dickson Wright small.
Doctors fil surgeons toki how the lives of many weresa
| POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"You know, darling, there |
are times when I feel furt like Marie Antoinette,
fiddling while Rome burns!”
sling nighties as a contribu- tion to the burns meuace." Dri
of the Health C. A. Bouchier, Ministry, said.
ren's
DEADLY SWEETS
who market highly
RMS coloured pills, tablets, and capsules which look like child- sweets weme sharply criticized by Dr Kelih Simpson, the Home Office pathologist.
mtxud Ho showed doctors
sweets and bag of
dangerous drugs.
It was impossible "Drinkdag alcohol, smoking, distinguish between them even sun-boiling hue its quola sight or even by taste in cases fenneer,” said Mr Dickson where the drugs were sugar- Wright, "Bul maybe It in better to die on our feet than
ve on our knees,"
11,
MA
THEIR HOBBY
JANY prople, sud Dr Richard Ashen, take up illness as a hobby as others take 113) bird- watching.
M
Sume berothe
attached 1 hospital out-patients* depart- ments that they treat them like
where public houses
they can mei Their friends and Ket 0 battle ut mediene from the doctor inatend of a glass of beer from the landlord
richer counterparts
tour private nursing homes and spus having non-essential organs Cemoved," " Asher sald.
They are mainly women who recommend their specialists to Their Trends like normal women ceci numend hourdressers Most of them are married to wealthy men who give them money to indulge their hobby Instead of affection
DEADLY NICHTIE
TIREShould not be allowed by how to wear nigħties, sugge Kested Dr Patrick Clarkron, of Guy's Hospital They wear pyjamas instead.
Banning the nightie
should
would
to by
coated More than 800 British children ar accidentally poi- soned to their homes every year, mainly by getting hold of drugs.
Maker should be forced to sel pills and tablets while look Jiker sweets in containers whien cathet opened by young elaldren, Dr Simpson said. And Larents should be more cureful by locking drugs away,
"Witness Egghead playing the intellectual-to-marry-Marilyn Monroe technique."
BING CROSBY TALKS TO MICHAEL RUDDY
HE'S STILL AT THE TOP
AFTER QUARTER CENTURY
W
Hollywood as a top recording artist, as HEN Dixie
Lee a great radio personality, as gave up a brilliant a fabulous film and TV actor carcer to marry
a man known the whole Harry Lillis work
over by the same save hunatuds of sexions urus Crosby, friends told her, "If simple,
name, endearing hardly pyjamas tit The nightie you marry this character, BING.
the far
greater you'll have to support him
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I have se his films in Bloemfontein, I have sal the pakce of the Sulton of Johore and heurd his SOOKS float out from u radiograin
1te must live scend, it times, to Bing almost too good lo be true, Till Dixie died.
1t Was In 1030
dened
Bing.
her friends to
that she
marry
She mothered his four
Fns-Gary, Dennis and Phillp the twins, and Lindsay.
Love Story
AND when in the autumn of
1962 she died of cancer after wo operations und u lingering Hliness, they sold it was the end of the
story greatest love Hollywood had ever known.
For year Bing moped and mourned.
But his mother, brothers and friends railed around him. Не WES persuaded 19
to return Aims and radio.
And today Bing is at the top again.
So You can
see that even lms and television,
without Bing's a busy man.
And there are his four zons.
to capitalise on being the Fons especially in the entertainment has more talent than the twins
own age.
"It needs great patience and understanding by the father in
adjust world outside the home."
Si ce Dixie died, the boya have grown inle monbued and Blog has had his hands full helping them kelplog them, guiding them, doing his best to be father and mother to them.
There have been headaches, Like
unother muny funious father. wondered when
the
Ding sent
of a famous father, the envy field, he let his sons have cars and resentment of boys of their too big and too expensive while
they were still too young.
In his autobiography. "Call Me Lucky." Bing admitted that one of the biggest mistakes he ever made was to follow an old American
graduation Gary a present
"Children are like colls,' he said when someone asked him what kind of youngsters his were. "Some come to hand with
For several years, his boya to the ranch to work during their vacations, exvetly
vealthy, like the other rinch hands, he had often HIL son know, as soon
discipline and they were cut enough to under-
02
car
custom
Bing Crosby and his wife, Dixie Leo. She died in 1952.
He had been a caretaker,
have been tremendous,
"He's Bing Crosby's son'
newsboy, an usher in a cinema, that's what people say. no a lorry driver. He had worked matter what happens, good or
in a pickle factory and in the bad.
bay flelds. "My one regret today is I hoped that Gary would that Dixie is no longer with
grtdunte from Stanford us to take the credit for cur University
and have the four boys," Bing recently sold, advantages of a liberal educa- "In my particular dictionary. tion," he told me, "But by the courage was the other word for
summer of 1004 he had his own programme on radio,
"Now
Jic's strictly business. It looks career all right.'
D
by
more
talent and Lindsay has than Gary."
Gary....Bing's eyes twinkled with paternal pride at the name of his cldest son.
1 "Dixie and
were always planning how he'd graduate from giving University....1 1yas disp- printed when he didn't. But it's grout to ace him making good en his own.
thall always remember the when Gary asked me; Pop, when do I cut a record?" I told him: 'When your marks tor mathematics are higher." And to think that by now he's cut more than thirty!
day
"Gary's first recording was Sam's Song
Listen to what
a crille sald about it.... .'Gary's
atter
and regtime rhythra blended to well with Bing's that the
polished nonchalance
Jecord
millon.'"
L
pith merc
than
Own Show
A
AST year, Ring's eldest boy started his weekly coast-to- const radio programme,
Crosby Show."
Gary
"The
Gary
Evans Crosby had five years of rich experience to help him put over his Sunday variety show.
His first professional solo broadcast was on Bing's pro- "Dear Hearts gramme, singing and Gentle People"
Gary
sings, acts, quips and
swaps patter with Top nama guests.
His stylo? "I think I have been strongly influenced by my, father," this hefty, crew-cut type readily admits.
Ho tips the beam at 1412
duty must be insisted on, and stand, that their father had kindness. Others require a stern Although his "retirement" when leniency and lecway come up the hard way. There regimen. No two are alike, and was announced last November should be granted,
had been no roys3 road to Bing that's how It is with the boys,” stone, would have made a by Hollywood authorities, The pressures on the boys Crosby's success.
Bing has done some big lobs strong loose forward. Enter. never sald he Bing himself
a in his time, but there can be no jainment is his field now, all would relire,
"My golf is
bigger job for any man than to the way. better and I sing
bring up a family single-handed. But I'm just starting and fairly well, don't you think?"
Certainly, no man ever tackled v been very, very lucky 20 Bing sald to me when we talked
it with a
bigger heart, or more far," he saya. “Diả auno
has MGM commis at lunch in the
helped me a lot. Nów I'm on sary after I had listened to his
said' Bing, "is simpler
own." Juct with Grace Kelly of "True
theちゃ days,
mike to see Gary doing with Gary pretty Love."
and with the twins in the Army. well set up as an entertainer bard-work," Bing
told me. "Have to watch the embon- point,
old boy, and discipline
wonderful experienco "It will do them a packet for him, to be standing up lae appetite," he said, a twinkle
good the training the work before the people every night. and the discipline, Particularly,
"Like me, he
doesn't read. the discipline....
muale, But he's got a good ear for melody, and a fine score of In Army
rhythm," says Bing."Ho Hves. "I have worried a great deal over the job of bringing up my
at home with me and we talk, to man, about anything particularly since FOUR years ago, before his Dixie died," he said another wife Dixie died, Bing thought anch everything.
little wistfully
"And he takes criticism well, it the twins-Denbis and Philip- her time, a
"But you
the savvy to secmed.
do your would take over the Crosby because he's got
lanow you've got to improve all ༣ ༣
the time?
Dixic.
Heritage
in his eye, as he pulled un one of the 80 or more pipes he owns. "Oh, I may do a movie in the autumn and another television
THE Iow but for the next show montha, la belle France et je ne mis quol"
THE heritage she left when cho died was a rich one, On incffaceable метогу of herself and four
"We miss her love,
youngsters, Impossible
show like his
**
"It's
man fine healthy four sons,
IF you visit the Crosby Bull Blond fast and constructive up best ch you know how to...." ranch.
He
part.
Lindsay aro so closely identi fled with me that many, many Dixie people forget it. was
it not been for these cum, I would have been com- pletely lost when she died,
"Dixie and I had always in tended that our boys would be raked no four average. Ameri- can kids.
With that in view, they Headlines
studied ranch management and WONDER if he was thinking animal farming at Washington of the headlines that came to State College.
Now they are both in the
No Fault
DELIGIOUS training has.
been uppermost in the
OVERY
or
ing on Sunset Boulevard, you will see that retirement for "Gary, Derus, Philip and Bing would be wellnigh Impos- able.
n largo part of owns | Minute` Mald, a frozen orange Crosby who brought them up.... my mind? juice concern, one of the biggest "I can honestly say that had Every nowspaper from US Army in Germany, What Crosby household. in the frozen foods business.
song of Los Angeles, to New York will they do when they are "With mo or without mo Among other holdings are a
had the story: "Bing Crosby's demobbed7.
when I have been away 20,000-acre cattle ranch in Elko,
son Philip Seriously Hurt in "I don't know," said Bing. overtons, the boys all go to Nevada, with 0,000 fine Herc
Car Crash."
"I only hope they'll settle down, Mues
Sunday
and to fords ranging the rich pastures,
The car was demolished after be good elfizens and tackle the Communion whenever possible,” two ranch houses, a hunting
a plunge over a twenty-foot. job in hand as well as they maye Bing... well-stocked trout lodge and a
embankment. The young man can."
It is my
hope that their stream:
to Fort Lewis: returning "I think that's the way a Washington, felt asleep at F4TTAIA -
"How about Lin?" I asked. faith will be their comfort and He owns Inrge, profitable pro- come out...."
"There's a boy that's doing support as it has been inine really well," he said, "He's go- And that when they are Dennis Some time before, worried Philip's
ing places at school, and he's a making their own decisions, the twin brother was
will do so in accordance with the the "Dennis Crosby Driver Deples and a dash of ceint. He has more
arrested in a speeding car good actor,
"He has savoir-faire, clan teachings of our Church,? **
No-I don't think Dixie would Although the charge against than a modicum of humour, and have any fault to find with the Building lists the following:
"A star becomes involved in Dennis was dismissed, the im- his repartee is often devastating Job Bing has done with her Bing Crosby Enterprises Ltd, serious problems when he has plication was left in the minds. And at the advanced age of 18 boys. Bing Crosby Offices Ltd; Bings four
bring up a of many people, and his father he ponders, problems
gravity rather than levity, Things Lu; Crosby Research psychiatrist friend wald recently, sadly sighed again. Institute;
"My brother Everett, an im- Crosby Electronics; There are so many pitfalls. 1. venture to say, that like:
wealthy Crosby Inventions Ltd,
for the boys....the temptation many
Americana, presio of parts, says that Gary,
perties in Beverly Hills, Holly- lle won't discuss it with wheel.
wood and Santa Monica.
Somewhat ructully he admits you, but what has that his racing stables produced, Bing, especially since his wife
died, has
soma
been
of the most conslate that goes with being He Was Drunk."
runners-up in California.
The directory at the Crosby
BOT.
sons to
the
4
with
The truth about those
TOMORROW:
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