HOW BING CROSBY WILL LIVE ON $ 25,000 A YEAR

WHEN the President urged a wartime $25,000 limit on incomes, he sent shudders along many famous Hollywood spines. Pencils squeaked far into the night as name stars tried to squeeze six-figure budgets under the $25,000 ceiling.

But Bing Crosby can take the cut without a whimper. His huge income has never turned his head. He’s a regular fellow with a sincere love of things.

Bing’s non-working life centers around his family, his home, his horses and his wide range of sports interests. He lives well and owns two comfortable houses. Wife Dixie Lee manages them with very few servants, for home to the Crosbys is not a cross between Grand Hotel and Buckingham Palace. Bing and Dixie are home bodies, and the bright spots see them seldom.

Bing wants his four boys to be real kids. He may splurge in such matters as playground equipment for them, but he keeps them in public school.

Bing’s strictly an “old hat and slacks” dresser. He dresses for comfort, not splendor. It’s the same with cars. The singer drives his own, an old is a Ford station-wagon.

The horses sound like an expensive hobby, but they aren’t to Bing. His stable (KMH cracks to the contrary notwithstanding) pays its own way. His $400,000 investment in Del Mar Race Track has paid dividends for the duration.

When Bing seeks amusement outside his home, he’s usually to be found at the ball park or the boxing-arena or the golf course. It’s a pleasure to sit near Bing at the ball park and hear him explain the fine points of the game to a couple of his boys.

Bing is a golfer of near-championship caliber. When he and his pal and fellow comedian, Bob Hope, played benefit matches to aid the Army-Navy Emergency Relief, the fans came out for laughs and stayed to watch fine golf. Fortunately for Bing, baseball and golf are luxuries well within the range of a $25,000 income.

In the past Bing has been a heavy contributor to many charities. If the ceiling is slapped down, his time may have to replace his money gifts, but the charities benefiting from Bing’s appearances won’t be losers.

All in all, Bing should make out all right, ceiling or no ceiling. If his radio and record earnings and his salary for such movies as “Road to Morocco” should be taxed to the bone, the regular fellow who lives at Rancho Santa Fe will grin and bear it. He’ll still have his home, his family, and the same comfortable old clothes.

<GOLF”S A JOY to Bing (left) and one that the $25,000 ceiling won’t take away. Bing’s skill with clubs has brought cast to the Army-Navy Emergency Relief>

<BING’S a happy horseman, for his stable pays its own way. But win, place or show, Crosby is a true sportsman. With his vacation scheduled to start this week, Bing will spend hours at the track>

<MR. AND MRS. CROSBY relax after tennis at Palm Springs. Dixie Lee is such a beauty that housekeeping talents seems too much to expect. But Dixie runs the Crosby home most efficiently and smoothly with the help of a very small staff of servants>

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