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...JAMES THOMSON, 61, who never sold a share of stock but is now president of the world's largest brokerage firm and has massive economic responsibility. See the cover story in U. S. BUSINESS...
...Pascagoula news around the Mobile papers and started selling them in Pascagoula. The new edition, called the Mississippi Press Register, lost nearly $750,000, but the Chronicle lost heavily too. Chronicle President Ralph Nicholson decided to sell out-but not to the immediate competition. Canadian-born Publisher Lord Thomson bought the paper, then turned around and sold it to the Mobile papers for a hefty...
...orchestral, ballet and opera-and there are not many composers who would fill the bill as nicely as Purcell. It's an appetite-whetting thing." The curtain raiser was the world premiere of Fantasy, a short, four-movement suite "in homage to an earlier England" by Composer Virgil Thomson. After a drum roll and a flurry of brass, the music settled down to a sober exercise in what might be called ye olde atonality, a weaving and heaving of dissonant strings with baroque-style embellishments. It was Purcell in modern dress with the stitches showing...
...Heath immediately challenged Wilson to respond, the Labor Prime Minister cuttingly retorted: "One encouraging gesture from the French government and the Conservative leader rolls on his back like a spaniel." But scarcely a week after his reelection, Wilson revised his Cabinet to give two ministers, George Brown and George Thomson, special responsibility for paving a road toward Brussels. They soon were dropping hints all over Europe that Labor wanted in, and fortnight ago in Stockholm, Brown said it plainly: "We want to join...
...exploiting his best asset: savvy in world finance. As a master strategist of Reynolds Metals' 1958 battle for control of British Aluminium, Warburg fought most of the British banking Establishment-and won. His S. G. Warburg & Co. also plotted most of the press takeovers by both Lord Thomson and Cecil King, helped Chrysler buy into Rootes Motors, arranged financing for Italy's autostrada, managed the first U.S. corporate bond issue in Europe, for Socony Mobil last year...