Munks

"Gutterson was one of the first Americans to attend the London School of Economics. He and his father and brother made fortunes in the late 1920s stock market boom. He remembers flying over to London, and throwing parties in the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Later he lost much of his fortune in the crash of ’29 but he still walked away with a million dollars. He bought Webber Pharmaceuticals in Canada, who specialized in vitamin E. His was a different mentality from the Munks’. The Guttersons were in love with the idea that the Munks were an old family, even though we had no money. At the wedding the rabbi made a speech about the"

"mother's a very special person, and I thought, Gee, the commander! My mother sits with the commander! My mother spoke to me then and said, “I want you to go with the Munks, and I don’t want any kind of nonsense from you. Just go.”"