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...says that "as soon as I got back to Memphis, I decided to build a motel that had all the things we missed." The draftsman who designed it, Eddie Bluestein, scrawled a title across the bottom of the plans: Holiday Inns. He got the name from an old Bing Crosby movie that he had seen the night before...
...sings Soprano Regina Resnik on one of the year's more remarkable operatic LPs, Highlights from the Metropolitan Opera Gala Honoring Sir Rudolf Bing (DGG, $6.98). The "he" is, of course, Sir Rudolf, the Met's retiring general manager; the "we" refers to Miss Resnik, other Met stars and six conductors who performed their, his and perhaps everybody's favorite arias for 51 hours last April at Bing's formal farewell...
Save for the Resnik spoof (Chacun a Bing's Gout, set to music from Die Fledermaus), the extracts on this disk are all unadulterated-and sung with the special fervor displayed by opera singers when their peers and rivals are in the wings. Soprano Leontyne Price brings a chaste passion to Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro. Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Tenor Placido Domingo, turning to Manon Lescaut, ask each other Tu, tu amore? Tu?, and answer in the way every Puccini fan dreams of hearing but rarely does. Awesome is the word for Birgit Nilsson...
...Bulldogs went ahead in the second period with two goals by Peter Tarr, but Harvard's high scorer, John Hagerty, put a shot past goalie Bing Gordon with one minute remaining in the half to narrow Yale's lead to 3-2. Hagerty scored again in the third quarter to even the match...
...Yale defense has allowed 124 goals in 14 games, with All-Ivy netminder Bing Gordon earning a 56 per cent save average. Gordon has been erratic this year through, playing very poorly in several games...