Archives for October 2, 2019

Bing Crosby sings a medley of “Pennies from Heaven,” “The Second Time Around,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” on The Bob Hope Chrysler Special, originally telecast by NBC on November 16, 1966:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up