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- Bing Crosby
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- (April 7, 1941)
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- Casual, talented and loaded with Irish luck, the Crosby career
- is also notable for making a bum out of Horatio Alger. For in
- 37 years, Bing Crosby has shed a confusing new light on the
- problem of how to be a success. He has never studied music or
- voice or pounded the pavements looking for work; yet jobs kept
- turning up--each a little better than the last. He always falls
- uphill. Year after year he sings, and people pay fortunes to
- hear him. Over the radio, Bing's voice is worth $7,500 for one
- hour's broadcast a week. On records, it sold 3,500,000 discs
- this year and earned him $77,000. In the movies, it brings him
- $175,000 a picture for three pictures a year.
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