Word: steined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size, he be came at 23 the youngest battalion commander in the Corps. Reluctantly mustered out at war's end, he began running his family's Kansas City interests (an auto agency, small loan and real-estate operations). Not until 1953, when his stepfather, Jules Stein, founder of MCA, asked Oppenheimer to buy him land and cattle as a tax shelter, did the ex-Marine find a new field to conquer...
Music Man Stein's call must have sounded like tunes of glory. "We consider our entire firm to be a general staff," says President Ronald Jarvis Jr.. a reserve Marine colonel who helped Oppenheimer build the company. "The ranches and the herds are the regiments and divisions." The top echelon of the 99-man staff is largely recruited from the military, because Oppenheimer believes that soldiers "know how to act in a crisis." They Certainly ought to know the routine. Oppenheimer requires bimonthly inspections o_? ranchers, using Marine fitness reports...
...diary of his abortive eleven-month campaign in Bolivia was first published by Fidel Castro last month and picked up in the U.S. by Ramparts magazine and Bantam Books. It was widely criticized as bowdlerized, with key dates and names edited out. Last week New York publishers Stein & Day weighed in with an unexpurgated edition entitled The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara and Other Captured Documents...
...Stein & Day book improves pointedly on the translation. Where Castro's version spoke only of "discipline" or "pressure" on the Bolivian peasants, for example, Editor Daniel James, a former managing editor of the New Leader and biographer of Che, interprets the diary's euphemistic disciplina more accurately as "terrorism." The Complete Diaries also offers a supplement to Che's account by including the diaries of three of his lieutenants, all of whom recounted the bitterness of their last days as revolutionaries. And James reveals that 13 of the guerrillas slain with Che were actually high-ranking Cuban...
...Stein's success as a businessman is all the more remarkable for the fact that his original calling was ophthalmology. A graduate of both the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, Stein helped finance his education first by organizing a band in which he played "schmaltz" violin and saxophone, later by arranging dance-hall bookings for other bands. In 1924, Dr. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America as a band-booking agency, found the sideline so profitable that he decided to abandon medicine. Over the years he moved into management of talent in radio and films, succeeded...