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...sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this one titled Road to Tomorrow. Crosby and Hope will portray two grandfathers who grow bored with life and set out for one last fling. And Lamour's role? "Who knows?" says Dottie. "Those two have...
...Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music director, and he is expected to have more authority than the first, Conductor Rafael Kubelik, who quit the job in 1974. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and former Met board president during the Rudolf Bing era, thinks highly of Levine and has made no secret of his own reluctance to get involved in day-to-day artistic decisions...
...auditioned for Rudolf Bing, the former general manager of the Met, early in her career, but he wasn't interested. So she joined the New York City Opera, made it big ten years later in Handel's Julius Caesar, and afterward turned down all the contracts Bing gingerly offered. No other singer has been able to do this; it is her legend, and she's proud of it. It became a David-and-Goliath myth which her fans loved and continually embellished, the most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been...
...Rowan, who chatted with Chou En-lai in Peking in 1973, began on-the-scene reporting of the Chinese civil war for LIFE in 1947. Rowan covered the conflict from the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek's armies in Manchuria to the fall of Canton in 1949. Correspondent Bing W. Wong grew up on a small island off the coast of China's Fukien province, attended Amoy University and in 1950, as Communist control spread, left for Hong Kong, where he became one of the colony's most respected China analysts. When Radio Peking flashed an announcement...
...offered impressive evidence that he has displaced Jack Nicklaus as the lord of the links. Nicklaus admits, "Nobody's ever played on the tour as well as Miller is playing now," but he was conceding nothing as he jetted into Pebble Beach for the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am and his first confrontation with Miller this year...