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Austrian in Edinburgh. Last week the man who blueprinted the festival could relax. With justifiable pride, Rudolf Bing could say: "We have sold a quarter of a million tickets in three weeks, not for a sporting event, but for Mozart operas, a Greek tragedy [John Gielgud's production of Robinson Jeffers' Medea], Hamlet in French and high-class orchestral music...
...tall, pale, olive-skinned man, Bing got his start 28 years ago managing concert artists in Vienna, his native city (he is now a British subject). He learned a bit more working with state and municipal opera houses in Germany, then went to England in 1934 as a director and general manager of John Christie's fledgling Glyndebourne company. When war came, Glyndebourne folded up for the duration. Bing got a job managing a chain of department stores...
...opportunists are distinguished from the people who believe in the war as a crusade (like Lieut. Yates or his friend Sergeant Bing) not because they do not know what they are fighting for, but because they do not need to know. Author Heym follows them through the liberation of Paris (barricade scenes, snipers, girls giving themselves to the conquerors in hotel rooms and in jeeps); through the Battle of the Bulge (scenes of slaughter at the front, the shooting of American prisoners); to the liberation of the first concentration camp (emaciated prisoners, panic-stricken Nazis, the guards killed...
Idealists. The believers in Author Heym's crusade are a long way from Richard the Lion-Hearted. Yates is hesitant and unsure of himself, even when his suspicions of Willoughby and Loomis have been proved; Bing is youthful and selfconscious. It is almost a matter of blind luck that the guilty are at last found out, and that a kind of rough justice triumphs...
...succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church...