Word: schein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waterfield Consort and Allen Hill, leader, perform in the Dunster House Music Society series. Schuetz and Schein: church music; Phalese: Dances; English fantasies and street cries. Dunster House Library. 3 pm. Free...
...Betamax may be the beginning of an important new industry," says Harvey Schein, president of Sony Corp. of America. "I don't think society can countenance the retrogressive step of preventing this from happening." MCA, argue the Sony people, should be gratified because the Betamax enables people to see shows they would otherwise have missed, thus enlarging the market for MCA products. Sony contends that TV video taping is no different from home taping of radio programs, which, it maintains, is legal if no commercial use is made of the recordings. Universal's Davies disagrees: "Say you have...
...lawsuit that goes unmentioned in the plaintiffs' papers. MCA, with N.V. Philips, The Netherlands electronics giant, is developing a home-use video-disk-playing system that it feels could burgeon into a billion-dollar business. The MCA machine would be unable to record off the air. Says Schein: "The company that is suing us just happens to have a competing machine that only plays back prerecorded material...
Founded two years ago by John Schein, a traveling nuts-and-bolts salesman from Oshkosh, Wis., Tippers International now claims 2,700 members in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. "I think tipping is a way of life," says Schein, 63, "but I think we have to control it a bit." Schein's control takes the form of blue and yellow report cards that members skewer with a monogrammed T.I. toothpick and leave with (or instead of) their tip. A blue card compliments the service and food. A yellow card contains a check list of complaints: service, quality...
Died. Sholom Secunda, 79, versatile composer of 1,000 popular songs; of cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda...