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...excellent production was something of a United Nations effort, what with an Italian conductor (Bruno Amaducci), an Estonian director (Ulf Thomson), a Greek baritone (Rudolf Constatin), an Australian soprano (Althea Bridges), a Japanese basso (Kunikazu Ohashi) and a Spanish tenor (José Maria Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer...
...FRANCE, Thomson-Houston took over Hotchkiss-Brandt to form the country's largest appliance producer, and the steelmaking Pont-à-Mousson merged with the Compagnie Financière de Suez (TIME, Jan. 28). Image et Son, a French radio-TV firm owning peripheral stations that broadcast into France, announced it was buying 30% of the Compagnie Française de Télevision, a research organization...
From Fleet Street, Thomson moved in every direction, gobbling up papers in Africa, the West Indies and the U.S., as well as in England. Thomson started a Sunday Times color supplement in 1962. He lost $2,000,000 the first year, but after that the Times's circulation jumped 120,000. Desperately, the other London papers rushed to get their own color supplements into print...
...Lately Thomson has begun to change his image a little. "I am not," he protests, "a very charitable man." Nevertheless, he set up a $14 million foundation for education in Africa. In 1963, he celebrated the first birthday of his color supplement by flying a group of British businessmen to Moscow to meet Khrushchev. "Under our two systems," Thomson told Khrushchev, "I am a capitalist and have come up, and you're a Communist and have come up." Thomson takes his self-appointed role as a broker between East and West so seriously that he went to Moscow again...
...Thomson was also determined to have a peerage. When he discovered that Canadians are not eligible for that honor, he became a British citizen and kept badgering everyone he knew in British politics, including Prime Minister Macmillan. Finally, last year he got his peerage and decided to call himself Lord Thomson of Fleet. Why had he gone to all the trouble? "It was the best way to prove to Canadians that I'm a success...