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Around the world, drug companies are teaming up in search of success. Britain's Beecham Group, purveyor of Tums antacid and Brylcreem hair lotion, last month merged with Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the antiulcer drug Tagamet, in a deal that will create the No. 2 pharmaceutical company after Merck. American Home Products, the maker of Advil and Anacin, is acquiring A.H. Robins. Merck, meanwhile, is scarcely standing still. In March the company formed a joint venture with Johnson & Johnson, its New Jersey neighbor, under which Merck will develop over-the-counter versions of patented medicines that Johnson & Johnson...
Tums, meet Tagamet. The race to create global pharmaceutical companies inspired a transatlantic merger last week. London's Beecham Group, maker of Tums antacid, and Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the anti- ulcer drug Tagamet, said they will form a company with more than $6.7 billion in total sales. The merged corporation, to be renamed SmithKline Beecham, will rank No. 2 in the pharmaceutical world to New Jersey-based Merck...
...move comes none too soon for SmithKline, which has suffered from declining Tagamet sales as the once revolutionary drug faces increased competition. Industry experts see the two companies as a good match. Beecham, which also makes Brylcreem, has built strong European markets, while SmithKline prevails in North America and Japan...
...know that Verdi refunded most of the expenses of a man who had twice traveled to Parma from Reggio to see Aida, only to hate it both times, with the proviso that he never again attend a Verdi premiere? Or that Sir Thomas Beecham once advised a tenor to sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor...
...real problem with the original-instruments movement described in your story "Letting Mozart Be Mozart" [Sept. 5] is that performances too often sound cold, clinical, antiseptic. For all their lack of authenticity, I still find the recordings of Mozart by Sir Thomas Beecham and the incomparable Busch brothers far more alive and satisfying and ultimately more faithful to the composer than those of Harnoncourt, Leonhardt and others...