by Elio Schaechter and Stan­ley Maloy — Abe Eisen­stark is an old friend of both of us. Elio was a grad­u­ate stu­dent in the Mid­west when he first met him. Abe was then a young fac­ulty mem­ber at nearby uni­ver­sity and was an in­spir­ing men­tor to whom Elio grav­i­tated straight­away. The story is a bit dif­fer­ent for Stan­ley…