Entrepreneurs: The Tribulations of Saul

Saul Steinberg is a 30-year-old wonder who founded Leasco, a pioneer computer-leasing company, two years after graduating from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1959. Since then, by extending his successful leasing activities into other areas and adding insurance and data-processing operations, he has built the company into a business with assets of $400 million. When Steinberg, a tall and portly man, announced last summer that he intended to make a $60 million bid for the London scientific publishing house of Pergamon Press Ltd., Britons viewed him as a brash...

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