Editing Sumner Redstone (section)

==Early life and education==
Redstone was born Sumner Murray Rothstein in 1923 in [[Boston]] to Belle (née Ostrovsky) and [[Michael Redstone|Michael Rothstein]].<ref name="Britannica">{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sumner-Redstone|title=Sumner Redstone|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=October 15, 2023}}</ref><reF>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|p=20}}</ref> Sumner was a second-generation Bostonian; his father Michael was born in Boston in 1902 to [[Galician Jews|Galician Jewish]] parents originally from [[Kozova]], a [[shtetl]] in [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] land now in [[Ukraine]].<ref>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|pp=14-15}}</ref> His mother Bella was also an American-born child of Jewish immigrants; her parents emigrated to the U.S. from [[Kyiv]] early in the 20th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|p=19}}</ref>

In 1940, at Sumner's behest, his father changed the family surname from "Rothstein" to "Redstone"; although Sumner credited his father for the name change, friends of the family attribute it more to Sumner.<ref>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|pp=26-27}}</reF> "Red stone" is the translation of the [[Yiddish]] name Rothstein.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Sumner-Redstone.html |title=Sumner Redstone Biography (1923–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=March 8, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sumner-redstone-dead-cbs-viacom-media-mogul-was-97-622455|title=Sumner Redstone, Tenacious Media Mogul, Dies at 97|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 12, 2020}}</ref> Michael Rothstein owned Northeast Theater Corporation in [[Dedham, Massachusetts]], the forerunner of [[National Amusements]], and the Boston branch of the [[Latin Quarter (nightclub)|Latin Quarter Nightclub]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/style/weddings-celebrations-paula-fortunato-sumner-m-redstone.html|title=Weddings/Celebrations: Paula Fortunato, Sumner M. Redstone|work=The New York Times|date=April 6, 2003|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202083924/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E0D61738F935A35757C0A9659C8B63 |archivedate=February 2, 2009|accessdate=October 15, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|pp=30, 61-63}}</ref> As a teenager, Sumner had summer jobs at his father's theaters but "had higher aspirations than the then-still-somewhat-déclassé world of theaters," wrote Keach Hagey.<ref>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|p=54}}</ref>

Redstone attended the [[Boston Latin School]], from which he graduated in 1940 first in his class, and was accepted to [[Harvard College]] on scholarship.<ref>{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|pp=27, 42}}</ref> Among his coursework at Harvard was a Japanese course taught by Professor [[Edwin O. Reischauer]], recommended to him by college administrators based on his study of Latin and Greek in high school.<ref name="Hagey Harvard"/> In 1943, Reischauer left Harvard to establish a [[United States Army Signal Corps]] training program at [[Arlington Hall]] for Japanese translators and [[Cryptanalysis|cryptanalysts]], positions in need during [[World War II]]; Redstone would be among Reischauer's students following the professor to Arlington Hall.<ref name="Hagey Harvard"/> 

Enlisting in the [[United States Army]], Redstone became a [[second lieutenant]] in 1944 before being promoted to [[first lieutenant]]. He worked with a team at the [[Signals Intelligence Service]] that decoded Japanese messages.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mundy|first=Liza|title=Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II|publisher=Hachette Books|location=New York, Boston|date=2017|isbn=978-0-316-35253-6}}</ref>{{rp|p. 208}}<ref name="Hagey Harvard">{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|pp=42-43}}</ref> Despite leaving Harvard for the military, Redstone had completed enough credits that Harvard granted his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in the class of 1944 with a concentration in classics and government.<ref name="Hagey Harvard"/><ref name="Britannica"/> After his military service, he attended [[Georgetown University Law Center]] before transferring to [[Harvard Law School]] and receiving his [[Bachelor of Laws]] degree in 1947.<ref name="Britannica"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.natoonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Memorial-Resolution-Sumner-Redstone.pdf|title=Resolution in Honor of Sumner Murray Redstone|publisher=National Association of Theatre Owners|date=October 7, 2020|accessdate=October 16, 2023}}</ref>