Word: steins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STEIN Chairman of the Board Bali Brassiere Co. New York City...
...tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they are all members of the American Guild of Variety Artists. But A.G.V.A. clearly has done little or nothing to improve their working conditions. Said Stripper Corinne Stein: "The girls were forced to mix, to use sex to get customers to buy drinks. In Cleveland you either 'mix' or get hit over the head." Complaints to A.G.V.A. are invariably point less: "What have you done for the girls?" McClellan asked Chicago A.G.V.A. Manager Martin Cavenaugh...
After publication of her first novel, Bryher was quickly accepted in the best literary circles. She was a friend and traveling companion of Poetess Hilda Doolittle; Ezra Pound tried vaguely to seduce her; in Paris she dined with Gide and Joyce and Gertrude Stein...
Judging by this petulant, priggish and reticent autobiography, Bryher seems to have been daydreaming through most of her encounters with the personalities who made modern literature. She recalls almost nothing of her talks with James Joyce or William Butler Yeats. She was invited often to the salon of Gertrude Stein, but spent most of the time in the corner, gossiping-about what, she does not say-with Alice B. Toklas. When that masterful raconteur Norman (South Wind} Douglas asked her to hike with him across Italy, Bryher thought of the disgrace of failure-and said no. Introduced to Andre...
Since 1946, MCA's operating head (and president) has been Lew Wasserman, 49, the austere and fanatically secretive protege of Founder Stein. Wasserman always dresses in black, and sees that his underlings do too. He is always accompanied by an aide who memorizes conversations so there will be a record of them in the event of Wasserman's death; in the best cloak-and-dagger style, MCA rarely keeps memos on any transaction...