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Unlikely Pair. On the surface a more unlikely pair of big businessmen could hardly be found than Wooldridge and Ramo. A trim (5 ft. 9¾ in., 155 Ibs.) man who looks out at the world through gold-rimmed spectacles, President Dean Wooldridge, 43, looks and acts the part of a professor; he is calm, introspective, plays the organ for relaxation. Vice President Simon Ramo is a striking opposite. Though equally trim (5 ft. 10½ in., 158 Ibs.), he is flamboyant and mercurial, takes mambo lessons for relaxation. Wooldridge marshals his thoughts carefully, is all business and lucidity...
...dissimilarities mask a pair of brilliant, happily meshed minds that operate effortlessly with talk that often runs to truncated sentences, single words, esoteric expressions. Ramo spends most of his time on missile work while Wooldridge handles the rest, but both decide company policy. So well tuned are the two, says one R-W executive, "that they seem almost twins. Working together, they are not the equivalent of two men, but something a little closer...
...Ramo-Wooldridge intellectual parallelism is matched by their careers. Both were born in the same month of the same year-Wooldridge on May 30, 1913, at Chickasha, Okla., the son of an independent oil broker, Ramo on May 7, 1913, the son of a Salt Lake City store owner. Both skipped grades in grammar school, peddied magazines for pocket money and excelled in their classes. Wooldridge graduated from high school at 14 and with honors from the University of Oklahoma; Ramo graduated from the University of Utah. Both went on to Caltech, where they won Ph.D.s...
...Simon Ramo had already come to the same conclusion. After Caltech he tried for a job with General Electric. Ramo was finally hired, but not because of his brain. The G.E. man chanced to hear him play the violin, hired him (at $28 a week) in the interests of the "very fine symphony orchestra'' in Schenectady, N.Y. Alternating between fiddling and physics, Ramo eventually became a section chief in the company's electronics lab. But, like Wooldridge, he yearned to apply science to the construction of products...
...Falconers. Both found what they were looking for in California's fledgling electronics industry. On a trip west in 1946, Ramo hired on as research director of a ten-man electronics section at Hughes...