WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

It's about time, I say. Kathryn promised this book in 1983, and I agreed to add my bit. She has finally done her part, and here comes mine:

I still miss Bing daily. He could do anything better than almost anyone. He may well have been the most versatile human in the history of the world-or of Paramount, whichever comes first. He was known to his generation as a singer and actor, simply because his contemporaries rewarded him lavishly for singing a few songs or filming a movie, but he hadn't a days training in the one or the other.He was an actor who never trod the stage, and a singer who never learned to read a note of music. On the other hand, he was an insomniac who immersed himself in the classics of our literature while others slept. In another lifetime, he might well have been a novelist, or a professor of literature. He was certainly a master of spoken and written English.