Word: bing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing saw Mehta conduct Tosca in Montreal in 1964 and recalls that "it was very funny. I engaged him." Funny? "There were many mistakes," explains Bing. "He was totally inexperienced. But it was all overshadowed by his personality and talent. Experience anyone can get." Mehta made his Met debut in December 1965 with Aïda, quickly became one of the top cocks in the Met pit. This season he has conducted three major productions, including a new Carmen. Says Bing: "I am still impressed by his talent and personality-and now it is less...
...BING CROSBY PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). The third round of the $104,500 tourney from Pebble Beach Country Club, Calif. Fourth round tomorrow from...
Experience should smooth the rough edges off Bradley's passing and play making. After the second Detroit game, the Pistons' Dave Bing, currently tops in the league with a 28-point average, said that Bradley "is a better shooter than I am, but he's always looking for the open man. He's always passing off instead of popping it in himself...
...military men. For twelve Christmases straight, Hope has spent the holidays with the troops-in Alaska and Korea, in the Azores and North Africa, in Guadalcanal and London and Viet Nam. Last week, with a company that included Raquel Welch, Miss World (Madeleine Hartog-Bel), Singer Barbara McNair, Bing Crosby's son Phil and Bandleader Les Brown, Hope arrived in Bangkok for his fourth Viet Nam tour. No doubt there will be old soldiers who will tell him that they saw him in Bougainville in 1944 and youngsters who will say that their dads caught his act in Frankfurt...
...Such thigh-slappers somehow emboldened him to try it as a single, and soon he turned up as a blackface emcee. Before he was 30, Bob (a name he thought sounded more "hiya fellas" than Les) was playing the Palace. Later, he was billed with another vaudeville hopeful, Bing Crosby. In his first Broadway show, Roberta, in 1933 (with Fred MacMurray and George Murphy), Hope played a Joe College-type bandleader. His best line was pure Hope: "Long dresses don't bother me; I've got a good memory." It was also in that year that Murphy took...