Word: milstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporting case was enthusiastic and enjoyable, especially Heitzi Epstein and Judy Milstein as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Together they managed to salvage the first act from total oblivion. Andy Sellon was a riot as the pedantic Humpty-Dumpty. Simon Goldhill and Caryl Yanow as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle were also amusing. Julie Zickefoose and Clare McGorrigan as the White and Red Queens supplied some spirited moments and the chorus was delightful, especially in the Lobster Quadrille dance. Cindy Cardon as the vamping, tap-dancing mutton charmed even those who had given up hope after two and a half hours...
...Hurok Concerts, is regarded as a sound businessman. His abilities as a starmaker in the Hurok tradition are less well known. Despite the recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England. One of the things wrong with the business-most music managers being...
...professional raiders but insiders-men who sold their firms for stock in big companies during the heady 1960s, then watched in dismay as the shares crumbled last year. Perhaps the fiercest fight pits the management of GAF Corp., which makes chemical and photo products, against Former Director Seymour Milstein, his family and friends. Milstein is upset by what he calls poor performance by the men who bought out his Ruberoid Co. in 1967. GAF Chairman Jesse Werner contends that the company is on the road to recovery. The struggle is a classroom case on how to conduct a proxy battle...
LESSON THREE. Fight dirty. In screaming, full-page newspaper ads and proxy mailings, Milstein's faction has accused the management of setting up a stock-option plan that became a "grab bag" for senior officers, and of using $600,000 of company funds to solicit proxies to re-elect itself. The company has retaliated with allegations that one of the challengers is a director of a firm in competition with GAP, that another bought his first 100 shares of stock only a few weeks ago, and that Milstein "has not been employed in a full-time job since December...