It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.