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...short (5 ft. 4 in.), white-haired professor perched on a small stool, his feet hooked in the lower rung, his hands extracting scrawled lecture notes from a manila envelope. Isidor Isaac Rabi (rhymes with Bobby) gazed stolidly up at his 30 selected students in Columbia University's tiered, 286-seat Pupin physics lecture hall. His eyes suddenly wrinkled with laughter, self-inspired by a quick quip; then his voice turned passionate as he summed up his lifetime concern that science "should be the foundation for the community...
Through the hordes of January sales shoppers in Macy's Manhattan store last week moved one of the toughest customers ever to confront a salesperson. As the board chairman of R. H. Macy & Co., Jack Isidor Straus is not only the biggest man in the world's biggest store but the chief executive of a 49-store chain that serves 110 million people a year. Yet Jack Straus, at 64, enjoys none of his duties so much as that of playing the indignant consumer. A man with the saucer eyes and eager fingers of a shopper ready...
...forebears. Straus is descended from a line of German-Jewish traders who at the turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858 by a onetime Yankee whaler named Rowland Hussey Macy. Straus's grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy's out from Newark to Toledo before...
...Nelson's oldest son, given the Chilean Order of Merit (Dad got it in 1945) for being "the kind of private businessman whose contributions, energy and ideals are so badly needed for the right development of Latin America"; Columbia University's No-bel-Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Isidor Rabi, 65, named winner of the annual $1,000 Joseph Priestley Memorial Award for "services to mankind through physics...
...magic word in business these days, but the chairman of R. H. Macy & Co., which runs the world's largest department store, believes in setting a course and sticking to it. "Once we agree on a policy, we don't change it without considerable consultation," says Jack Isidor Straus, 63, who last week reported that Macy's quarterly earnings rose 25% above last year's rate. For Macy's big Manhattan store, Straus's policy is to maintain a middle-income emporium "that you'd expect to have just about everything you want...