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...cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt. He wanted to be a Zanuck...
Papa Levenson's career was the very opposite of the standard American success story at the beginning of the century. He used to start with money and end up broke. This made life pretty grim in the squalid East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil...
Papa wanted his first-born son to become a trader; Mama, who came of a long line of rabbis, was determined that he should become a scholar. So when Papa left the tiny Russian-Jewish village of Uzlian to try his luck in America. Mama immediately sent her five-year-old son off to her uncle, a penniless rabbi who lived several hundred miles away. For almost five years the little boy lived there. He was an only child among a household of grownups; he rose with them at sunup and for twelve or 14 hours a day intoned pages...
...smaller scale than the late President, Sorensen was also brought up on politics. His father, Christian Abraham Sorensen, rose from the Nebraska prairie sod house in which he was born to become state attorney general. His mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, was a convinced pacifist and feminist from a Russian-Jewish family...
...believes that automation "is a matter of life and death to this country. It is to the second industrial revolution what the harnessing of power was to the first. Because we were the first in adopting new techniques 150 years ago, we have benefited ever since." Born of Russian-Jewish parents in Kiev, Sir Leon studied at London University, formed his own company in 1935, and since the war has headed the revamped firm of Elliott-Automation Ltd., which, outside the U.S., is the largest computer manufacturer in the world...