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...Robert Hall figures are carefully kept under the hat of U.M. & M.'s President Jacob Schwab, a shy, cold-eyed man with a passion for obscurity. His name usually gets into public print only once a year, when the U.S. Treasury lists him as one of the highest-paid executives in the , U.S. The latest list put his salary & bonus in 1946 at $440,542, third in the payments so far reported...
Like his staff, Schwab puts in an 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. day, five days a week, sometimes takes work home to his apartment on Fifth Avenue or his country home in Westchester County. He smokes and drinks only occasionally, has no hobbies ("I play a little golf but not very well"), and seldom goes out evenings. He has a simple method for keeping his razor-sharp mind honed: "I just like to work...
Over $5,000 of the gift will be used to develop a technique of detecting polio by measuring the electricity in a patient's muscles. Dr. Robert S. Schwab '26, instructor in Neurology, and Dr. Arthur L. Watkins '31, associate in Medicine, are heading the project...
Left, by Steelionaire Charles M. Schwab, in the cornerstone of his Manhattan chateau (which a wrecking crew is now leveling): a handful of coins. Folklore had secreted a fortune in the cornerstone...
...Ferguson Locke '35, Langdon P. Marvin '41, Thomas Matters '43, Vern Miller '42, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, Endicott Peabody '42, Roswell B. Perkins '47, John C. Robbins, Jr. '42, Armand Schwab, Jr. '46, Saul Sherman '47, Philip M. Stern '47, Robert S. Sturgis ' 44, Richard H. Sullivan '41, and James Tobin...