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Harlow called him "Lone Star," after Lone Star Dietz, the Indian chief of the pro football Boston Redskins. So did his classmates. And they applauded him. They even whistled at him once senior year when he stripped to his red fiannel underwear on a Dunster House stage...
...Dietz still hears the applause and whistles. He heard them at his 15th reunion when he repeated the striptease in Soldiers Field. And he heard them last Monday night, when he improvised some songs for a small group of 25th reunions. "When I'm spontaneous, I'm a poet, I'm an artist," he says. "But the only people who know it are the ones who are there. I've got the largest floating audience in the world...
...Dietz says of his years at Harvard, "I learned that you can be a non-conformist and still be accepted." Then he learned that you can't be at the Business School. His mother urged him to go, and he went, unecstatically...
...Business School also confirmed his distaste for what he calls "the comforts of repetitiousness." The U.S. Navy did the rest. After serving on a destroyer, Dietz was assigned to Admiral Nimitz's public relations staff on Guam. It was Dietz' job to greet officials visitors, such as Congressional delegations, and take them on tours of the island. When a delegation lost all its baggage, as one actually managed to do, Dietz was supposed to commiserate with the Congressman on their inability to dress for dinner with the Admiral...
Another p.r. man on Guam, William Brinkley, wrote a book about it. The book was called "Don't Go Near the Water," and Dietz, in case you're wondering, was Ensign Max Siegel...