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...ashes of Bing, a 17-year-old alley cat," said a news story in the New York Herald Tribune last week, "were scattered over the rose garden behind [his owner's] home yesterday, where Bing liked to lie in the sun. Bing was one of the better-known alley cats of New York City . . . Bing had spent four years at Harvard [with his owner] and was known as the cat with the college education...
...Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing was fascinated."All I want to hear about," he told reporters, "is that wonderful cat named Bing." But Bing the cat was a oneday story. Bing the Metropolitan's manager-to-be, with some of the Met's furriest stars miaowing all around him, made news most of the week...
...with Flowers. He had two telephone conversations with Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, and gratefully learned that she had changed her mind about quitting the Met (TIME, Feb. 6). Instead, Bing announced, Traubel would sing one Wagnerian cycle next season, Kirsten Flagstad the other. Lily Pons, who is as famed for temperament as for her coloratura, telephoned from a hospital, trilled that she would come by for a chat about her contract as soon as the doctors would let her. Not at all, said Rudi Bing. He dashed off to the hospital himself "with my arms full of flowers...
...another negotiation, Bing and up & coming Tenor Richard Tucker found themselves "only ?50 out." They left it to the flip of a coin; Bing won. By last week, moreover, almost all of the Met's supporting singers were snug in new contracts...
...from the wings in midweek came the roar of a wounded lion. Fifty-nine-year-old Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior had heard nothing yet about a contract and he thought he should have been approached before "all the small ones." His manager fired off a telegram to Bing demanding to know by next day where Melchior stood. Replied Rudi Bing coldly: "I am not prepared to submit to ultimatums...