Word: stein
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Musician, band hooker, cattle breeder, antique collector, real estate investor, holder of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange-Jules Caesar Stein, 70, has made money in all those roles. To say nothing of founding the Music Corp. of America and parlaying it into a $300 million music-movie-TV empire. Not surprisingly, he never found much time to work at the profession he trained for: ophthalmology. But last week Dr. Stein made amends...
Standing on the terrace of the only marble building on the University of California's Los Angeles campus, the sometime ophthalmologist dedicated the Jules Stein Eye Institute to the cause of preventing blindness. Said London's Professor Norman Ashton: "You have earned the gratitude of many people, but the deepest gratitude will never be expressed-nor can it be. It will be found in the eyes of those who live after us, who drink in the visual beauties of life without fearing the loss of that vision, and who may say, 'It is wonderful...
...Skin Of Our Teeth, as Stephen Nightingale directs it at Lowell House, carries off Wilder's con game with only a few pratfalls. The play is a loosely conceived Everyman telling the never-ending story of Mr. George Antrobus (Stuart Beck), his wife (Mary Belle Felten-stein), and two kids (John Sansone and Jody Adams). Wilder places this New Jersey family in the Ice Age, the flood, and the end of World War II (which wasn't over in 1942), revelling in anachronism and exploded convention...
...LAST JEW IN AMERICA by Leslie Fiedler. 191 pages. Stein...
...world is in the midst of the greatest technological advance in its history-and the U.S. has been in the vanguard of that advance. As Gertrude Stein observed, the U.S. is the world's oldest country because it was really the first to enter the 20th century. It was the first to develop electric signs, skyscrapers, the conveyer belt and the computer. It was first with traffic jams, modern central heating and indoor plumbing, first with the airplane and the telephone, first with a radio, automobile, refrigerator, and a TV and washing machine cheap enough for every workingman. Much...