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...General Manager Rudolf Bing who declared in the early '50s: "Caruso, Caruso, that's all you hear! I have an idea we're going to be proud some day to tell people we heard Tucker." Last week the current general manager, Schuyler Chapin, said: "When the annals of opera history are written, Tucker will rank among the golden dozen." He sang 32 leading roles, appearing in 503 Met performances. Tucker himself claimed sovereignty over but a single role: "Of course I can sing it better than anyone else," he said with disarming candor about his portrayal...
...while operating in the People's Republic. A Taiwan government-recruited mainland spy named Wang Hung, 30, surfaced in Taipei after having served a year as an undercover operative in China. Purportedly a political instructor in the Red army stationed in Yunnan province, Wang told TIME'S Bing Wong that he formed clandestine cells among urban youths who had been sent to the countryside to work on agricultural communes...
...years in preparation, the Met's Boris was initiated by the late Göran Gentele and carried to brilliant fruition by his successor as general manager, Schuyler Chapin. It is easily the triumph of the Met's post-Rudolf Bing era. Chapin has even brought in Choreographer George Balanchine to stage a coolly graceful polonaise. Ming Cho Lee, 44, responsible for so many splendid New York City Opera sets (Giulio Cesare, Don Rodrigo), makes his Met debut with a masterly series of designs that not only touch the eyes but also move the drama forward virtually without...
...Dave Bing and Bob Lanier led the Detroit Pistons over the Boston Celtics in a squeaker last night at Boston Garden, 105-104. Bing finished with 32 points, including the decisive basket that made the score 105-100 in the final minute. Lanier picked up 27 points...
...wording of the ad was deliberately chosen for people to take sides," Steven Bing, one of the drafters of the ad, said yesterday. "The effort was not made to make it so innocuous that we got a thousand names...