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...music and drama festival in Scotland, tailored after the Salzburg Festival. He launched the Edinburgh Festival in 1947, and overnight it became one of the biggest and most successful arts pageants anywhere in the world. The master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when...
Outside of Edinburgh, where it has its headquarters, Distillers Co. Ltd. is hardly a household name. Yet on its own and through a large family of subsidiaries, the company produces more than half the Scotch sold round the world, and its bottles carry most familiar labels: among them Johnnie Walker, Haig, Dewar's, Vat 69, White Horse and Black & White. The company also dips in a big way into gins and vodkas -producing, among others, Gordon's and Booth...
...Edinburgh may have more class and Salzburg more tradition, but no festival has a longer season or a larger attendance, or offers a wider variety of music than the public concerts this summer in New York City's Central Park. The programs run from Memorial Day to mid-September, have so far drawn 400,000 people-including a record 80,000 at a single New York Philharmonic performance-who have heard jazz, band music, folk-rock, opera, orchestral music, and even a Dutch street organ huffing Strauss waltzes. None of this activity absolutely guarantees that the park will...
...Back in Edinburgh, having once more "catched a Tartar" in a "mansion of gross sensuality," he published a long theatrical review (signed "A Genius") and a volume of atrocious verse. At 22, though he had four liaisons running concurrently, not to mention the trulls he slept with in teams, he found time and energy to start his journal...
Duty to Enjoy. He was born in Edinburgh, the first son of a stern Scots jurist and a mother who spoiled her little Jamie to make up for his father's puritanical severity. At 17, while studying in Edinburgh, he fell platonically in love with an older woman who was Catholic, and when his father precautiously transferred him to the University of Glasgow, Boswell ran off to London, intending to be converted and take holy orders. Before taking orders, he took a girl named Sally Forrester, whose charms persuaded him of his "duty to enjoy" a secular life...