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...young conductor's electric glow first became visible last October when William Steinberg, music director of the Boston Symphony, fell ill midway through a visiting concert, also at Philharmonic Hall. Thomas, the orchestra's new assistant conductor and Steinberg's understudy, took over after intermission and handled Strauss's familiar Till Eulenspiegel and Robert Starer's new Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra with ease, poise and cool. Said the New York Times next day: "Mr. Thomas knows his business, and we shall be hearing from him again...
...Steinberg later suffered a mild heart attack and had to give up most of the 1969-70 season; Thomas conducted 34 of the Boston Symphony's concerts and was on the podium at its spring recording sessions. The first results, Ives' Three Places in New England and Ruggles' Sun-Treader, soon to be released on a DGG LP, is 20th century music making at its best. Having established himself as a splendid standin, Thomas was asked to fly to London on short notice in May to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. He was brilliant, especially in Stravinsky...
Maxwell, a Member of Parliament until he was defeated in the June election, was held in considerably greater esteem in London's financial community. Last year, advised by merchant bankers N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Saul Steinberg, 31, chairman of Manhattan's Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp., made a $60 million bid for control of Pergamon. The ebullient Steinberg saw Pergamon's big library of scientific data as a logical complement to Leasco (1969 sales: $101 million), which has aggressively moved into all phases of computer information services as well as management consulting and insurance...
...entrepreneurs started negotiations last summer with a display of toothy smiles. But as Steinberg pressed for more financial information and disliked what he learned, the smiles turned to snarls. The resulting battle has become one of the longest, most acid and most entertaining in British business history. Steinberg's charges and Maxwell's countercharges have frequently enlivened prime-time television. Even the Board of Trade, Britain's overseer of commercial practices, is investigating the controversy...
...again in an estival moment of lassitude and languishing spirits. Classic enmities and provincial disputes seem to blur in the sweltering July sun. Pitcher Denny McLain is back in Tiger Stadium. Richard Nixon played host last week to a reunion of his Whittier College class of '34. Leigh Steinberg, the moderate new student-body president at protest-prone Berkeley, said he opposes the Viet Nam War but that most of his fellows are "sick of confrontation." The Columbia News, a rural Georgia weekly, observed: "As long as there have been sweaty, hot summers, there have been cases...