{"id":1994,"date":"2019-12-29T16:34:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/?post_type=knowledgebase&#038;p=1994"},"modified":"2019-12-29T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:35:28","slug":"1947-12-08-philco-letter-to-bing-crosby","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/documents\/philco_docs\/misc\/1947-12-08-philco-letter-to-bing-crosby\/","title":{"rendered":"1947-12-08 Philco Letter to Bing Crosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a letter from Philco&#8217;s Executive Vice-President, William Balderston, to Bing Crosby, dated December 8, 1947. I obtained this from the estate of Bing&#8217;s longtime writer, Bill Morrow (who wrote the Jack Benny Program prior to joining Bing post-war). The pencil notes are in Bing&#8217;s handwriting, and read &#8220;To Morrow &#8211; Bing 12\/10\/47&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s about time! from Bill &#8211; Bing&#8221;, and &#8220;Hold this in file philco???&#8221; (last word not legible).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Contributor: NostalgiaRadioTime<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons pdf-download-button\" style=\"margin-bottom:1em\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1947-12-08-Bing-Crosby-Letter.pdf\" download aria-label=\"Download 1947-12-08 Bing Crosby Letter\">Download PDF (356.5 KB)<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1947-12-08-Bing-Crosby-Letter.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">1947-12-08 Bing Crosby Letter<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a letter from Philco&#8217;s Executive Vice-President, William Balderston, to Bing Crosby, dated December 8, 1947. I obtained this from the estate of Bing&#8217;s longtime writer, Bill Morrow (who wrote the Jack Benny Program prior to joining Bing post-war). The pencil notes are in Bing&#8217;s handwriting, and read &#8220;To Morrow &#8211; Bing 12\/10\/47&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-1994","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}