Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred Stein arrived on Wall Street in 1957. His assets: nine years in the merchant marine, two years in the Army, a high school equivalency diploma and a voracious appetite for reading. An Army buddy had introduced him to Gerald M. Loeb's Battle for Investment Survival, and Stein was hooked. He read every stock-market book that he could find, and landed a position as a $50-a-week clerk. Then he shifted from job to job in several Wall Street houses, always moving...
There will be no quota on the number of men who can eat at the Center, located at 6 Ash Street, near the Loeb Drama Center. Radcliffe students have been allowed to eat lunch on interhouse for several years. Lunch hours are from...
...problems the Loeb is having and has had before stem from the nature and mechanics of the building. It's big and beautiful--and terrifying in its enormity and shining complicated technology...
...Loeb always needs that new blood which is scared off by the rumors surrounding the place, and often must tap house who staffs when it's short on labor. But besides being scary, there exists no attractive or formalized way to learn at the Loeb. The freshman apprentice program was not credited with great success by anybody. Donald Soule and Frank Hartenstein, the Loeb technical and assistant technical directors, are there to prevent fingers from being cut off and equipment from being destroyed; they'll answer specific questions, but they are not there to teach...
...Career oriented people such as George Lindsay, who want to be professional techies, the Loeb may not offer training, but it does offer a chance to make mistakes and correct them for the next show...