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...turned out to pasture by a recent spate of rumors, well-preserved (51) Crooner-Cinemactor Bing (The Country Girl) Crosby started work on a filmed TV show in Hollywood, set questioners straight on the superannuation chatter: "Let's just say that I'm not going to retire quite as much as Winston Churchill, but more than Betty Hutton...
Obviously, the Callas talent would be an asset to any opera company, and the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Rudolf Bing has coveted it for years. But Soprano Callas-who insists that she must be the highest-paid member of any company in which she sings-indignantly refused the Met's ceiling of $1,000 per performance. Instead she accepted a reported $2,000 from Chicago's fledgling Lyric Theater company (TIME, Nov. 15, 1954). Said she at the time: "Who is the Met, my father or something? The Met can't afford...
Since then, the Met has decided that it cannot afford not to afford Callas. "In May, Mr. Bing came to Italy," she explained last week. "He saw me. We spoke. We were all right together." Both Manager Bing and Soprano Callas steadfastly refused to disclose her salary, but educated guesses put it at $2,000 per performance. Manager Bing announced that Callas would open the Met's 1956 season in her famed role, Norma, and chivalrously kissed her hand in her Chicago dressing room for the benefit of photographers. As to salary, he only remarked: "Our singers work...
...went into the end zone, intended for Lewis. Lewis bobbled the ball, but before it fell to the soaked turf, Kennedy picked it up for a touchdown. Bing Crosby converted to make the score...
Nobody has been able to explain Eddie's sudden success beyond the fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...