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Crosby Boys iramch Out After Show Business By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent . HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The four golden Crosby boys, heirs to riches and public scrutiny, have crash landed from prema ture stardom to the hard reality of the world. The name "Bing Crosby" is no longer a magic wand for ' them. Their private lives have been devastated by divorce three out of four and professionally they have plummeted to the bottom of the show business ladder. Even the term Crosby boys is a misnomer. They are men now. Gary is 30; the twins, Dennis and Philip, 29; and Lindsay 25. How goes it with Bing's first family now, the four sons of his first marriage (to Dixie Lee Crosby)? What wrecked their promising dream of stardom as a singing group? How has it affected them individually? And how have they fitted the pieces of their lives together again? The Crosbys, singly and as a group, belie their reputation for arrogance, flippancy and wild ness. If they were swingers five years ago, they have changed. Each is soft spoken, well-mannered and, yes, subdued. UCLA Educator To Speak at Meeting EUGENE Dr. William H. Lucio, noted educator from UCLA, will be keynote speaker at the annual fall conference of the Oregon Elementary School Principals association Oct. 13-15 at the University of Oregon. About 500 elementary school principals from throughout Ore gon are expected to participate in the three-day session in the Erb Memorial Student Union. . Dr. Lucio, professor of educa tion, will speak on "Instruction ' al Leadership in the Elementary School" at 9:30 a.m. Monday. - Other speakers and their topics will be A. B. dimming, '.principal of Estabrook school, Lexington, Mass., "Organizing the Elementary School and De veloping the Staff for Team Teaching;" Dr. H. Harrison Clarke, research professor ot physical education at the uni versity, "Physical Fitness and Children;" Isadore Pivnick, di rector of the school-community program, San Francisco Uni fied School district, "Education of the Culturally Handicapped;" and Glen Robertson, president of the OESPA, "Professional Lead ership of the Elementary Prin cipal." University President Arthur ! S. Flemming will be banquet speaker Monday, Oct. 14. His . topic will be "Civil Rights and Education." A panel concerning "Leader ship of the Elementary Prin ' eipal in Effecting Change" will be held Tuesday afternoon with Dr. A. A. Sandin, UO professor of education, as moderator. Dr. Sandin also is university coor dinator of the conference. Optometrists List Books in Large Type BOSTON (UPI) - "Easy on Your Eyes," a booklet compiled by the Massachusetts Library association, lists 600 books in larger-than-normal type. The New England Council of Optometrists incorporated, Bos ton, is the publisher. watch THE NYLONS! Pan quel Roquets appears a bit skittish as three new-found friends nuzzle her nylons. The thrce-month-old Bengal tiger cubs were flown tn Miami, Fa., ny J plane irnm lonyo ior a Miami pei firm and are priced at $1,000 each. (UPI) The burden of their famous name, which each admits now was more handicap than asset, has tempered their personalities and wrenched their careers in different ways. Gary, the eldest, is the only one who is still happily mar ried. After three years he says, "Barbara and I are sailing along smoothly. We're very happy and plan to stay that way." Once the ringleader of the family singing group, Gary broke away from his brothers shortly before his marriage and struck out on his own as a sin gle. Overweight and illness forced him to retire temporar ily from the show business scene. It was reported that he and his brothers had experienced a rift which only recently has been patched up. In the past year Gary lost weight, resumed his singing ca reer and will star this season in the new "Bill Dana" television series. "I don't see much of Phil and Linny anymore," says Gary. "But Dennis and I get together every so often. "I'm trying to negotiate a recording contract now and try to work in some movies. I've had my share of off - seasons, and now maybe things will be looking up for me." Gary and Barbara live in the . .. .. ill. Tl San Fernando vaney wim Bar bara's 8-year-old son, Steve, by a previous marriage. Gary has adopted the boy. Dennis, who made headlines in a paternity suit, is balding, shy and hopeful that he can sal vage his marriage. "I feel sure Pat and I will get back together again," he says. Dennis worked in a production capacity for Bing Crosby Pro ductions at Desilu studios, and plans some day to produce a television series for his father's company. He has no desire to return to performing. "I guess I wasn't cut out to he an entertainer," he admitted. "I was always painfully self conscious out there in the spot Coin Collectors Expand Exchange. HOUSTON. Texas (UPI) A group of men who want to make Houston the world s coin couec- tion capital are expanding a coin trading exchange they say links the commercial coin deal ers of the hemisphere. They are officials of the Amer ican Numismatics exchange. The exchange is a clearing house for coin trading informa tion that speaks to more than 100 coin dealers on this con tinent through six teletype cir cuits. Thomas D. Watson, exchange president, says the system saves the average coin dealer hun dreds of dollars previously spent on telephone calls and travel to dealers to put his coins on the market. Watson estimated the United States alone has from 10 mil lion to 11 million coin collectors. "There is a tremendous inter est in numismatics," Watson said. "A number of major firms and wealthy families are invest ing in rare coins because that is a stable investment with steady appreciation in value." CANNY BREW CHICAGO (UPI) -Nearly 20 per cent of all metal cans made in the U.S. are for beer, reports Reynolds Metals company. American Airways stewardess Ra light Willi by brothers. And I certainly couldn't go on stage without them." Dennis keeps in close contact with his twin, Philip, who is the tallest, most confident of the brothers. Phil is under contract to Frank Sinatra's Reprise Record ing company and recently cut two new songs, a rock 'a' role rendition of his father's famed "When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day," and a countryfield version of "Little By Little." "We had four good years as a singing group first the quartet and then the trio so I can't complain," Philip said. "Now I hope to keep going as a single. Founds Corporation "But I'm not putting my eggs in one basket. I may get into a pre-fab housing outfit and things Fribourg Collection Contains Age of Elegance Possessions By C. GREGORY JENSEN United Press International LONDON (UPI) - Like most of us, the late Rene Fribourg set out as a young man to furnish his house. Like some of us, he chose fur nishings from a single historical period. Like a lew ot us, he had tne money to buy anything his im peccable taste demanded. But like practically no one else, Fribourg collected house furnishings worth millions of dollars. Just how many millions we will know soon. For the furniture, pictures and bric-a-brac which Fri bourg crammed into his house on New York's East 84th street are on public sale here. So far they have brought nearly two million dollars. And the best is yet to come. The last four sections of Fri bourg's massive collection will be sold over a five-day span later this month four sales which should hit the fine - art world like the blows of a trip hammer. By the time they fin ish, Fribourg's house furnish ings should rank as the most valuable private collection ever sold. The first three segments of Fribourg's furnishings, auction ed earlier this year, sold for $1,823,752. That figure should be more than doubled by the time the final hammer falls on the 817th Fribourg item Oct. 18. Even the "Magnificent Sev en" series of sales won't com plete the whole of the Fribourg collection. A spokesman for Sotheby's, the art auction house where the collection is being I wonder why the laundry seems brighter lately? Calgon cleans away washing film that detergents and bleach can't touch Washing film. It sticks, it yellows, it won't rinse out. It leaves things not quite clean. Soaps and detergents can't touch it. (In fact, they cause it. That's why extra deter gent is no substitute for Calgon. It just makes the film problem worse.) Bleach can't remove washing film either. But Calgon water conditioner gets rid of it just . . . like . . . that! Want a surprise? Recondition your clothes with Calgon. Try this next time. Instead of adding soap or detergent to your wash water, add nothing but one cup of Calgon (more for hard water). Set your ma chine for a complete wash cycle. Then watch! Suddenly the water is covered with auds. Calgon isn't a sudscr, remember. It's a tuds-nlcaser . , . releases all the hangover Gtlltipit Ptfinon MEDFORD look good for me to become one of the founders of Sports Cor poration of America, an agency for athletes who branch out into show business and endorse prod ucts." Philip and his wife, Sandra Drummond, went to the divorce courts in June of this year. They are the parents of Dixie Lee, 4, and Brian Patrick, 3. Lindsay, the young est of Bing's first family, has followed the course of his older twin brothers. He married a Las Ve gas show girl (as they did) and has since been divorced. His wife Barbara went to court last year. They have a son, David, 3. Lindsay's health was a pri mary factor in the dissolution of the trio. He suffered a nar vous breakdown in October, 1962, and was hospitalized. It dispersed, said more than 100 other Fribourg items will "spill over" into several further sales. These extra items jade, por celain, old master drawings and others will be scattered throughout Sotheby's miscella neous sales until Nov. 15. "Sale of the most important Fribourg items will finish with some furniture to be sold uct. 25," the spokesman said. The items sold so far were largely the less valuable parts of this staggering collection. A sale of porcelain June za brought a world record total of $506,660. Experts said the re maining porcelain, to be sold Oct. 15, is of higher quality. Napoleon's Bed The first half of Fribourg's furniture brought $908,628 on June 28. The second half, going on the block Oct. 18, has twice as many items, including things like Napoleon's wedding bed. Paintings which lined the walls of Fribourg's mansion brought $408,464 on June 26. His drawings will be sold Oct. 16, probably for less money but the balance will more than be made up by the first of the four remaining sales uct. 14, one ae voted almost entirely to gold snuff boxes. One remarkable fact about this astonishing series of sales is that there is not a single 'biE" item in them. Fribourg owned no $2 million Rembrandts, no million - dollar impression ists. The highest single price of the collection so far has been a comparatively modest $78,400 for a small secretaire. The explanation for this para dox lies in the period Fribourg Between you and me, doll eyes . . . she's been using Calgon. detergent than usual. Add Calgon to first or deep rinse, too, to remove every last trace of dirty suds that plain rinse wa ter leaves behind. The greatest differ ence in your family wash is the difference Calgon makes. lrokra Co., t .0. lot 701, Midfortf 464. 1406 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, has taken him a year to regain his health, and to slow down the fast - paced life he led after he and Barbara separated. Lives With Pepito Linny, as they call him, lives in Palm Desert, Calif., at the home of a close family friend, Pete Pepito, near his father's house in the Palm Springs area. This month Lindsay and Pe pito will open an Italian deli catessen in the desert commu nity "We've been planning this venture for about six months," Lindsay said. "I think the idea of owning a business is good for me. I'll learn how to handle money and how to operate a concern." The young Crosby said he might return to show business some day, but not before study ing music and acting. chose to collect and the taste and skill with which he collected it. Fribourg, born In Antwerp, Belgium, to a family whose grain business (The Continental Grain Company of New York) became one of the world's three largest, was captivated by 18th century France. Loved Louis Things "I love Louis XV and Louis XVI things," he once said. was born with that love in my soui. This was the "Age of Ele gance," a period which pro duced some of the most boauti- ful furniture and objets d'arte the world has ever known. Fri bourg brought to them a con noisseur's skeptical eye for cer amics, furniture, paintings and his beloved snuff boxes. He backed his judgment with his fortune. He stalked the best things in the world through the gentle jungles of the art world. When they came up for sale, he bought them. He bought them steadily for half a century. Everything he bought he crammed into a turn-of-the-century New York man sion. He was still buying at his death last January at the age of 83. Fribourg never wanted his collection preserved it was too personal for that. His will specified that it should be sold at auction. And one of Rene Fribourg s final regrets was that he wouldn't be around to watch the sale-room fun. 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Reporters claim they have, crashed landed from their premature stardom of five years ago. Hollywood ...even less calories per diet slice than half a grapefruit Praise be! Diet-Sliced Hollywood Bread, lendcr-lcxtured and satisfying, tastes so good! .. Good things go into it, that's why. Sesame seed and golden wheat. And nine fresh, vitamin-packed vegetable flours lettuce, carrot, celery, parsley, to name a few. And still, even less calorics than half an average grapefruit! Good idea ? . . . Good bread ! . . . 46 li'l ole calories per Diet-Slice Or that the four Crosby sons will ever appear together again as entertainers. Only Gary and Phil (who are the least friendly among the brothers) are deter mined to stay in show business. All Have Money Financially, none need worry, each boy received $50,000 in 1942 from their parents to set up trust funds. 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(UPI) BREAD BREAD i Crash ed their attention to building their lives over from the begin ning not as the Crosby boys, but as Gary Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Philip Corsby and Lind say Crosby. And those who know them best are happy to say that each of Bing's four sons is doing a workmanlike job ot rebuilding. To Lose ?" m i L m
