Larry Crosby
Laurence Earl "Larry" Crosby was the long-time publicity director of his younger brother, singer Bing Crosby. He was the eldest of Bing's six siblings.
The seven Crosby children were the four elder brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Harry Jr., two sisters Catherine and Mary Rose, and the youngest sibling, brother Bob. His parents were English-American bookkeeper Harry Lillis Crosby Sr. and Irish-American Catherine Helen "Kate" Harrigan, daughter of a builder from County Cork, Ireland.
Crosby managed the annual Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur at Pebble Beach, California, near Monterey.
Starting in 1971, he was also the director of "Prisoners in Exchange for American Construction Enterprise ", a group seeking better treatment of prisoners of war taken during the Vietnam War.
Crosby died of cancer in the Century City area of Los Angeles on February 7, 1975 at the age of 80.
