Word: binge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month, at the request of President Kennedy, Goldberg intervened in the complex, personality-ridden battle between the musicians and management of the Metropolitan Opera that had led General Manager Rudolf Bing to throw up his hands and cancel the 1961-62 season. Both sides agreed to go on with the season and leave their differences up to an arbitrator-but only if the arbitrator was Goldberg...
...moves during the weeks of dramatic wrangling were equally confused. In midsummer, its labor problems still unresolved, management's top men were pointedly out of town-autocratic General Manager Rudolf Bing in Europe and Opera Association President Anthony Bliss in Montana. And while Bing was in Italy, contemptuously dismissing Goldberg's offer to intervene (it would not help, he said, "a bit"), Bliss graciously accepted...
...both sides prepared their briefs for a mid-month meeting with Secretary Goldberg, it was clear that General Manager Rudolf Bing's image of authority had been weakened. But the Met had survived the crisis, had lost only one singer and the season would open on schedule on Oct. 23 with Leontyne Price in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. It was unlikely that either management or musicians, whatever the possible payoff, would ever walk so near the brink of a canceled season again...
...stand in the fall. Only two-Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Anna Moffo-had announced their availability to other opera houses. In response to a pleading wire from Soprano Leontyne Price (who was to open the Met season in Girl of the Golden West), Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg called Bing and the union and offered his negotiating services to New York Mayor Robert Wagner. At week's end the union and the Met resumed negotiations. And the Met went ahead with plans to move to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which will be completed...
Marriage Revealed. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 37, onetime second-magnitude tennis attraction less famed for her overhead than her under wear; and Frank ("Bing") Simpson, 35, Los Angeles lawyer-yachtsman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Hawaii last month...