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...chauvinistic trade name of Beecham Research Laboratories Ltd. for 6[D(-) a-amino-phenylacetamido] penicillanic acid. No simplified generic term or U.S. trade name has yet been adopted...
...Beecham's Pills are just the thing...
...Beecham's father wanted him to go into law or the pill business (the family fortune was estimated at $140 million...
...Tommy decided, after studying the piano and vainly attempting to write The Great English Opera, that what he really wanted to be was a conductor. After a brief career at Oxford, he bought himself an orchestra, which he called the Beecham Philharmonic but which the rest of the musical world called the "Pillharmonic." After a while, Beecham's father decided to endorse his career, gave him financial backing to form his own opera company and to rent London's Covent Garden opera house, which Beecham Sr. later bought. There Beecham presented some 60 operas unfamiliar to the British...
Died. Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, a musical prodigy who never lost his genius for conducting or his gift for sarcastic wit; of a stroke; in London (see Music...