Top left: Gary , Philip , Lindsay and Dennis Crosby earn their pay by working every summer on family ranch near Elko , Nevada Top right: Bing Crosby is awarded honorary degree of phD in music at Gonzaga University Bottom left: That clown convulsing Betty Grable is Der Bingle! The costume was part of a charity ball . The middleman is his pal Bob Hope dressed as the ringmaster . Bottom right: Mary Pickford , shares ice cream with Bing at beginning of his long career .