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...inconvenience of Dallas-Fort Worth. One Dallas businessman even flies from Love to Houston to take a connecting flight from there to Chicago or New York, and points out that this costs him $20 and 40 minutes, only slightly more than the cab ride to the big airport. Gordon Bing, a leading Houston executive, says in un-Texan fashion: "Bigger is just not better. I've been through there once and that was enough-all that delay and confusion between planes. Before Dallas-Fort Worth I thought the worst airport in the country was Kansas City, but now Dallas...
...years, until 1972, this unwieldy kingdom was presided over by Sir Rudolf Bing, a resourceful administrator but one often resented for his peremptory ways. Though he spent money lavishly, he is undeniably looking better and better as he recedes from view. His successor, Goren Gentele, came from the state-subsidized Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Gentele was killed in a car crash only 18 days after he took over. His most tangible legacy was the appointment of the first music director in the Met's 90-year history, Czech-born Conductor Rafael Kubelik. It is an indication...
...pass up all of the marvelous crooners? Lanny Ross, Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Arthur Tracey, Morton Downey and Kate Smith...
Roman Catholic priests, it seems, are bedeviled by false images in Gotham. According to Father George Thompson, vocations director of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, many New Yorkers see their priests in the Father O'Malley image made popular by Bing Crosby in Going My Way three decades ago-a genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios...
Rare Match. For the series pilot, the writers' first choice to play Columbo was Bing Crosby. Crosby yawned, and eventually they were left with the actor who was at the very bottom of their list: Falk. At first Falk, too, refused the assignment, unwilling to lock his career into the usual 13-week series schedule. He finally consented when the network proposed a seven-segment miniseries, rotating Columbo with three other shows under the collective title NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. When the show was aired in March 1971, "that rare match between character and actor made...