Word: weinberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently in New York, heart of the Rockefeller domain. The guests were all intimate friends of President Eisenhower's -such men as Coca-Cola's Board Chairman William Robinson, General Electric's President Ralph Cordiner, Cities Service's Board Chairman W. Alton Jones, Financier Sidney Weinberg...
...Doctor of Laws degrees on His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; C. Douglas Dillon '31, U.S. Under-secretary of State; State Department "trouble shooter" Robert D. Murphy; Ada Louise Comstock Notestein, President of Radcliffe College from 1923-43; M.I.T President-Elect Julius A. Stratton; and Sidney J. Weinberg, a New York investment banker...
...anniversary issue had to pay for their ads. Dozens of bylined articles were donated to the cause by literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time...
...going to be a sinecure for mediocrity. The old G.E. had a reputation as a good and complacent place to work if you kept your nose clean. I wanted to get rid of that idea and create more risk and opportunity." Says G.E. Director and Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg: "If you did something wrong, Cordiner would send for you and tell you you were through. That's all there would...
Though he has amassed a fortune, estimated at between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000, Weinberg lives relatively simply, still commutes from the Westchester County (Scarsdale) house that he and his wife bought in 1923. He has two sons, one a partner in Goldman, Sachs and the other an executive at Owens-Corning Fiberglas. His chief recreation is his work; he shows only slight signs of slackening his pace. Says Weinberg, who takes only an occasional cocktail: "My grandfather drank half a pint of whisky a day and lived to be 90. Maybe...