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Jules Stein, LL.D., board chairman, MCA...
...first thing Ewbank did was to take a hammer to the piggy bank that Werblin had filled as longtime boss of MCA-TV. Over the past three years, the Jets have laid out an estimated $2,000,000 in bonuses for promising college players - $400,000 of which went to Joe Willie Namath, 23, a gimpy-legged quarterback from the University of Alabama who did everything last week except match the A.F.L. record for most touchdown passes in one game...
...persons. If the tab was high, the take was higher: $250,000 from the 480 guests. His financial backers are a wildly diverse group?thanks in part to Marion's standing in artistic-intellectual-entertainment circles. They have comprised a mint of Rockefellers, a socko of showbiz moguls from MCA's Jules Stein to the late Billy Rose, a tussle of tycoons that include Schenley's Lewis Rosenstiel and Seagram's Bronfman family, Macy's Jack Straus and Gimbel's Bernard Gimbel, Heinz Foods' H. J. Heinz II and Consolidated Foods' Nathan Cummings (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...anything but - a fact that was signaled in advance by the peekaboo, fold-out invitations created by Stage Designer Rouben Ter-Aru-tunian, replacing the universally ordi nary engraved white cards. The rea son was that Amanda-darling, daughter of Mrs. William S. Paley, and Susan, bright offspring of MCA Founder Jules Stein, got a couple of dozen beautiful young people to show up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in "nude" fashions inspired by Shakespearean heroines and created for the occasion by U.S. and European designers...
Wasserman is worth more than $30 million in MCA stock, but he lives-frugally by some neighbors' standards-in a $400,000 one-bedroom house in Beverly Hills designed by Harold Lezitt. There is a Henry Moore beside the driveway, a Soutine on the dining-room wall, and a Bernard Buffet portrait of Wasserman himself, a gift from Alfred Hitchcock, in the foyer. Mrs. Wasserman sleeps in the bedroom. Wasserman sleeps on a couch in the study, where he gets up at 5 each morning and starts making phone calls to breakfasting subordinates in New York...