Bing Crosby [antikvár]

Part One:Summer and Winter, 1952CHAPTER ONEWe have only been married about six months, but we have already found out that we are not suited for each other.-DIXIE LEE CROSBYBing Crosby was in Europe for the location shooting of Little Boy Lost when the gambling pool surfaced in the fall of 1952. There were two illicit gambling pools being circulated from the mail room of Paramount Pictures that year. One was the traditional World Series pool, which went seven games before the Yankees took the series from the Brooklyn Dodgers; the other was macabre, even for the netherworld of Hollywood flesh peddlers and users. It was called the Dixie Death Pool, and it was doing brisk trade.It was planned as a monthly pool. The October1