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...Tiffany chandelier to the old-fashioned cash registers and five brands of bourbon, every effort is made at Daisy's to create an environment any Back Bay Gatsby would love. Even the music tends toward eras long past, playing many of the big band favorites that first put Bing and Doris on the charts...
Just a few months ago, senior Tom McLaughlin raced by a tightly packed defense and rifled a shot past Princeton goalkeeper Ethan Bing to clinch victory for the Harvard men's soccer team. This spring, he hopes to repeat the feat against Tony Meola...
After outrunning the defense, McLaughlin drew Tiger goalie Ethan Bing out of the net and got the ball through his legs...
DIED. SIR RUDOLPH BING, 95, witty, authoritarian impresario who called the tunes at the Metropolitan Opera for 22 years; after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease; in New York City. Bing broke new ground as general manager of the Met--moving the company to Lincoln Center, introducing its first black performers, and building it into a first-class opera house. His ear for singers was equally discriminating--though he never quite lived down firing Maria Callas...
...what's left? A terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song's mood, to Bing Crosby than to any top singer of the past 30 years. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of It's Now or Never, the final detonation of pain and taunt in Are You Lonesome Tonight?, the choir-soloist power of the hymn He Touched Me--his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus--these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas...