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...insensitive mention of saving every child in Haiti in an essay intended to be humorous ("You could save every child in Haiti, and you would still have to feed the parking meter") shows an incredible lack of good judgment and taste. I won't read him again. Carolyn Sonneborn Mayr, LINZ, AUSTRIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Troubles | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...McCarthyism as the greatest threat to the prestige of our nation today"). Then Governor Harriman gave her a reason-by implying, in a radio broadcast, that Rockefeller was pro-Arab and anti-Israel. En route to Baltimore to visit the ailing mother of her fourth husband, Philanthropist Rudolf G. Sonneborn (and co-chairman of Democrats for Rockefeller), Dolly brooded and made up her mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free Speech for the Boss | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...case you missed the item when it was printed ... the name of the (I hope) lucky man is Rudolph G. Sonneborn . . . He is tall, grey-haired and very handsome, with a beautiful speaking voice. More important, he has a wonderfully kind disposition, and is well known as a leader in humanitarian causes ... To top it all, although the head of a large oil-refining and chemical business and a director of a bank, Rudolph is a liberal Democrat! My husband ... is very modern in his attitude toward careers for women ... He reads the New York Post avidly, and considers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uncle! | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Married. Dorothy Schiff, 50, publisher of the Fair-Dealing New York Post; and Rudolph Goldschmid Sonneborn, 55, petroleum-products manufacturer; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1953 | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...proper scientist should, Dr. Sonneborn spoke modestly of his achievement. But it is none the less notable: he had given his sensitive paramecia an acquired characteristic (the killing ability) which they transmitted by heredity to their offspring. Classical genetics has been saying firmly that it just cannot be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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