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...Bing Crosby (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Guests: Judy Garland, Abe Burrows...
Important Point. Lean, tired-eyed Festival Manager Rudolf Bing could hardly deny the charges. But neither did he see any reason to plead guilty. Said he with a sigh: "You don't come to Edinburgh to hear Brahms's Second Symphony. If you're the type who goes to a festival, you've heard it. But you do come to hear the Royal Philharmonic under Beecham, or the Berlin, or the Vienna Philharmonic, or the Concertgebouw. It seems to me that what is played here is less important than who plays it. Whatever he thinks...
Biggest surprise: Billy ("Mr. B.") Eckstine (TIME, June 20) was voted "greatest popular male singer of all time," just a iump ahead of Bing Crosby...
...Obedience. For an opening appetizer, shrewd Manager Rudolf Bing (who will get a chance to demonstrate his shrewdness as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year) served up one dish that is always good for a gander...
...Stranger. Rudi Bing had other tempting dishes on his menu. While some visitors trudged through grey Edinburgh Castle and peered into ancient Holyrood House, others queued up for tickets for the Busch and Griller quartets and the festival favorite, The Three Estates (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the Glyndebourne operas (Mozart's COST fan Tutte, Verdi's A Masked Ball) were already sold out, except for the ?2 seats, which were too expensive for the British...