Editing Atlantic Records (section)

===Herb Abramson departs===
When Herb returned from military service in 1955, he realized that he had been replaced by Wexler as Ahmet's partner. Herb did not get along with either Wexler or Nesuhi Ertegun, and he had returned from military service with a German girlfriend, which precipitated his divorce from Miriam, a minor stockholder and Atlantic's business and publishing manager.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Greenfield |first=Robert |title=The last sultan: the life and times of Ahmet Ertegun |date=2012 |publisher=Simon & Schuster Paperbacks |isbn=978-1-4165-5838-5 |edition= |location=New York |pages=109}}</ref>

By 1958, relations between Herb and his partners had broken down. In December 1958 a $300,000 buy-out was arranged. His stock was split between Nesuhi Ertegun and Herb's ex-wife Miriam, who had in the meantime remarried to music publisher [[Freddy Bienstock]] (later the owner of the [[Carlin Music]] / [[Chappell Music]] publishing empire). Herb's departure opened the way for Ahmet Ertegun to take over as president of the label.<ref>Wade & Picardie 1990, pp. 44–51.</ref> The roles of the other executives with Herb's departure were Wexler as executive vice-president and general manager,  Nesuhi Ertegun as executive vice-president in charge of the LP department and Miriam Bienstock as vice-president and also president of Atlantic's music publishing arm Progressive Music. Wexler was also executive vice-president of Progressive, and the Ertegun brothers were vice-presidents.<ref>{{cite news |title=Abramson Starts Triumph Label |magazine=Billboard |date=December 15, 1958 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2}}</ref>