Thursday, June 17, 1943

Dear Diary,

Bing Crosby returned to the Kraft Music Hall tonight. He sounded rather tired, not his usual chipper self. In fact, and I never thought I’d hear myself say this, I didn’t enjoy him as much tonight as I have Bob Crosby the past eight weeks. Bing almost managed to get off the air without a word about Bob Hope, but I guess the strain was too much for him. At the very end of the program, in urging people to buy bonds, he said, “Sock away some bonds for the new things to come after the war. The present-day radios and ice-boxes will be as dated as Hope’s horse jokes.”