OS as se re % iy Oh the ; . 4 ’ 4 7 tar : i ’ f * Hs. : i a i" A mn a =a) x es ih 7 i Ke > " a or ae } . 7 £: 4 Sons,’ 737 An. eS . ah WH 8 — bINg _ Says | NEW YORK (AP) — Bing Crosby | - feels he failed as a father to his/ four grown sons by being too strict { and then too forgiving, by handing | out too much money and too little Byer a iat ‘Crosby, one of the world’s most | famous and richest entertainers, ! can't solve the problem that. baf- | fles fathers everywhere: The boys | don’t come to him for help: they | don’t listen to his advice. _ ___“T think T failed them by giving | them too much work and discipline, too much money and too little time | and attention,” he told Joe Hyams, | Hollywood correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune. “But I| did my best and so did their| mother.’ } 1 Hyams quoted Crosby in a two . part series in the newspaper as | being discouraged as a parent, but | hopeful the boys will be good citi-| a TIGHT STRING ‘i Crosby said he kept the boys on i a tight string until they were 17: |. Home by 10 p.m., whipped with al leather belt when necessary, earn- | ing their own spending money. But, | he said, it didn’t produce the boys he hoped for. | ) None of the boys finished college. | |. f Crosby reluctantly sold the big Ne- |. vada ranch they summered on for|. years open and which another Show business. he hoped would| world Two to them than| | of the boys| have been caught drunk driving. | Gary and Lindsay were recently asked to move from their apart- | ment because of too much fun-rais- | ing. Philip and Dennis married Las | Vegas showgirls. The marriages _ don’t — distress Bing. “‘They married nice girls and ~~ that’s said. the . important — thing,” he|! | |