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Born in South Bend, Ind., Stein originally set out to be a doctor, got an M.D. at Chicago's Rush Medical College in 1921, studied ophthalmology at the University of Vienna, wrote a learned treatise ("The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lensen") after he returned to Cook County Hospital as a resident. He organized a band in which he played the fiddle, made bookings for other bands for a fee, finally teamed up with William R. Goodheart Jr., who later retired, to found M.C.A. as a band-booking agency in 1924. This sideline proved so profitable that...
...Stein, then resident eye physician at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, wrote a learned, respected treatise called The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lens en. But Dr. Stein finally gave up medicine and devoted his whole time to booking dance bands...
...danger of the ballot becoming a battleground of opinion on the various component elements of the New Deal, their merits and demerits in the minds of individual voters. Any consideration of details might have confused the balloters and obscured the purpose of the poll which was to distil, from a generous cross-section of the nation, a pure sample of American sentiment on the subject of the New Deal on the whole...
...talk to urchins, but he mostly sits, or "goes singin' like the mornin' stars for joy that he was made." And there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow...
SPELLBOUND?The dark fascinations of hate distil a murder. Principally Pauline Lord...