An Unhurried View Of Ralph Ginzburg

October, 1965

The early life and times of Ralph Ginzburg sound like the plot for a Herman Wouk novel of a poor-boy hero about to make good. Born and bred in Brooklyn of Jewish immigrant parents, the young Ginzburg pushed a wagon in the garment district, waited tables in the Catskills, sold ice cream on the beach at Coney Island, and dreamed of being a millionaire by the time he was 30. He got top marks and played in the band at New Utrecht High School, hurrying on to the City College of New York at the age of...

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