Jules C. Stein
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Dr. Jules C. Stein (April 26, 1896 – April 29, 1981) was an American musician, physician, and business leader.
He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and received degrees from the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College. He founded the Music Corporation of America (MCA) in 1924.
Stein and his wife Doris founded the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA in the 1960s.
He died in Los Angeles, aged 85.
His widow, Doris J. Stein, founded the Doris J. Stein Foundation in Beverly Hills, California. Doris Stein, and her daughter, Mrs. Susan Shiva, both died from breast cancer the same year (1984) within months of each other.
Dr. Stein was the grandfather of the noted journalist and television personality Katrina vanden Heuvel, who publishes The Nation ([1]).
[edit] References
About Jules Stein. Jules Stein Eye Institute. Retrieved on 2006-12-04.
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