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.
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nuzzle her nylons. The thrce-month-old Bengal tiger cubs were
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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
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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
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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
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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.
"This," he said shortly be
fore he died, "will be a notable
sale the biggest of the cen
tury." It may well be.
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Bing's sons are on friendly
terms with their dad, but do not
see him very often. Papa Cros
by still is busy with his own
career, and as often as time
allows he and his new family
(wife Kathy, sons Harry Lillis
Jr. and Nathaniel) hie off to the
Crosby manse at the tip of Baja
California.
There is virtually no chance
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crashed landed from their premature stardom of five years ago.
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Financially, none need worry,
each boy received $50,000 in
1942 from their parents to set
up trust funds. Their mother's
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estate provided for a quarter of
a million dollars each.
Since leaving the Crosby nest
there have been family differ
ences, a public fight or two, a
few bouts with John Barleycorn
and romantic didoes. But aside
from their marital difficulties
the Crosbys have escaped head
lines for more than a year now.
They have matured and turn
Three of the four have been divorced, and all have fallen to the
bottom of (he show business ladder. Left to right: Phil, Lindsay,
Gary, their father, Bing, and Dennis. (UPI)
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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.
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