Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific, learned later that it had sped 5,000 miles downrange, landing within a mile of its target. It was the first time that he had seen an ICBM fired. Then, in the relaxing atmosphere of California's Palm Springs area, where he was a weekend guest at Bing Crosby's estate, Kennedy paid a 50-minute call on another sun seeker, former President Dwight Eisenhower. They chatted mainly about world affairs...
Last names vanish: Arlene Francis Kazanjian, Maybritt Wilkens, Eddie Albert Heimberger. Some stars can't stand their first names. Leslie Hope and Harry Crosby went for a solid Bob and a charming, chiming Bing...
Szell came to the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, renowned as a greatly gifted Wagnerian conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and as a man with a monumental temper (his Met career ended when he walked out in midseason after a dispute with General Manager Rudolf Bing). As a hedge against the possibility of stirring up any such disputes in the Cleveland, Szell demanded and received assurance that the board would give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." The board provided the means, and Budapest-born George Szell, a World War II immigrant to the U.S., created...
...Grizzled ex-Masters Champion Doug Ford, 39, has been fretting about his game ever since the winter tour began. He failed to survive the cut in the Los Angeles Open, was out of the money in the San Diego Open, debated quitting the tour before the Bing Crosby tournament. But to Ford, the rugged courses and trying weather (rain, sleet, snow, hail, 40-m.p.h. winds) of California's Monterey Peninsula proved peculiarly hospitable. On the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with chunky Joe Campbell, Ford collected the winner's purse...
Soprano Birgit Nilsson, scheduled to sing the role of Brünnhilde, had to bow out the evening before the performance. General Manager Rudolf Bing gave the role to Soprano Margaret Harshaw, who was to have sung Sieglinde; into the Sieglinde role went Soprano Gladys Kuchta. One of the Valkyries, Mezzo Gladys Kriese, was ill with tracheitis: her part went to Mezzo Ethel Greene, regularly a member of the chorus...