Word: distillation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in South Bend, Ind., Stein originally set out to be a doctor, got an M.D. at Chicago's Rush Medical College in 1921, studied ophthalmology at the University of Vienna, wrote a learned treatise ("The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lensen") after he returned to Cook County Hospital as a resident. He organized a band in which he played the fiddle, made bookings for other bands for a fee, finally teamed up with William R. Goodheart Jr., who later retired, to found M.C.A. as a band-booking agency in 1924. This sideline proved so profitable that...