Word: binge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFTER only nine weeks of his ¶first season, Rudolf Bing looked like the best thing that had happened to the Met in many a day," wrote TIME in its first cover story on the opera's manager in 1951. He had at least convinced people, the story went on, "that the Met was not doomed to creak forever along ways established back in the gaslight...
Last week an older but no less energetic Rudolf Bing led the Met into a new era and a new house at New York's Lincoln Center. Our second cover story on Bing not only brings his career up to date but assesses the present condition of an ever-appealing, grandly irrational art form-and reports the event itself in words and color pictures...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby hosts George Burns, Sid Caesar, the Mamas and the Papas, and Soprano Jane Marsh, winner of the recent Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
Stagecoach. John Ford's pacemaking 1939 western pushed horse opera into the thoroughbred class, made a major star of John Wayne, and clinched an Academy Award for the late Thomas Mitchell, who gave a richly liquored-up performance as a thirsty, unshaven quack. In this ill-starred remake, Bing Crosby plays Mitchell's doctor role with more flippant humor, fewer prickly insights. Bing is good, but otherwise the movie suggests once more that Hollywood's twice-told tales seldom honor the past as much as they plunder...
Because of its punitive tone, the bill provoked a strong protest in Washington. Approving an otherwise routine merger between the California Canadian Bank of San Francisco, owned by Toronto's Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and the Northern California National Bank of San Mateo, of which Singer Bing Crosby is chairman, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deplored "the apparent lack of reciprocal treatment" accorded U.S. banks in Canada...