Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston-born and educated, "Bing" Bingham was a promising freshman at Harvard when he spent a summer vacation working for Macy's in Manhattan. He sold a balky woman customer six pairs of shoes the first day there, was immediately rewarded with the offer of a spot on Macy's "training squad." Bing found the offer so alluring he never went back to college. Within a year, he was head of the store's Varsity Shop. At 22, the ex-shoe clerk became a full-fledged buyer, and at 32, a vice president...
...Bailey once admitted that "I couldn't sing big if I wanted to." But if her voice was one of the smallest around, it was also the sweetest and the sighing-est; and she had a natural rhythm to her phrasing that made her (with the Rhythm Boys-Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and her brother Al Rinker) one of the idols of the early '30s. Since those days, many of Mildred's old records have become collectors' items...
...Rudolf Bing "For he I sing...
...Washington, the President signed a special bill granting permanent U.S. residence to Vienna-born Rudolf Bing, $35,000-a-year manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and his Moscow-born wife Nina, naturalized British citizens who have been living in the U.S. on temporary visas since...
...scheduling the first performance of Alcestis in eleven years, General Manager Rudolf Bing had two ideas: !) he wanted to hear Gluck's somberly magnificent music again and 2) he cannily thought that the challenge of the big name part might be enough to induce Kirsten Flagstad to postpone her retirement one more year. He was right. Though she was tired after 23 years of singing Wagnerian roles, she was intrigued with the idea of learning a difficult new role at 56-and singing in English for the first time on the U.S. opera stage...