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...share of domestic steel sales has slipped from 30% to 25%. Last week, hoping to reverse that trend sharply, the world's largest steelmaker picked a new management group. To succeed Lawyer Blough as chairman and chief executive, Big Steel's directors chose Edwin H. Gott, 60, an operations man who has been president for the past 18 months...
...aggressive new chief is likely to depart from Blough's cautious, somewhat remote style of leadership. More than that, the elevation of Gott-who started his career wearing the greasy overalls and grimy face of an industrial engineer in a U.S. Steel plant-represents a victory of the production men over the financial experts and lawyers who have traditionally run the company...
Other executive changes further underscored the policy shift. To succeed Gott as president, the board picked his longtime ally and fellow production specialist, Executive Vice President Edgar B. Speer, 52. Another executive vice president, R. Heath Larry, a lawyer and Blough protege who has long been considered his heir apparent, had to settle for the post of vice chairman. At 54, Larry is still young enough to have a shot at the top job later...
Terse Releases. Like many huge corporations, U.S. Steel is far too complex to be run by a single man. Under the new setup, Gott will direct the master planning, while the gregarious Speer will execute and expedite policy decisions. Larry, a poised and articulate public relations specialist, will handle labor negotiations and probably share with Gott the role of the industry's unofficial ambassador to Washington...
Wednesday night Miss Wilsen presented a recital for soprano remarkable for its originality. Instead of the usual chronological sequence of song groups by Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Wolf, Debussy, and so on, her program was divided between Cantata No. 51 of J.S. Bach ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"), setting by various composers of Goethe's "Rastlose Liebe" and Paul Verlaine's "Clair de lune," along with the cycle On This Island by Benjamin Britten to poetry of W. H. Auden...