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WEINBERG'S network of friends served him well during World War II, when he worked as a mobilizer for Donald Nelson, persuaded dozens of top businessmen to take Washington jobs, including "Electric Charlie" Wilson, G. Keith Funston and Ralph Cordiner, on his plea that "Government service is the highest form of citizenship." Since then, Weinberg has nudged George Humphrey, Neil McElroy and many others into Government service. He has achieved the status of a de luxe one-man employment agency. "There is a guy waiting outside right now," he told a recent visitor, "who is president of a multimillion-dollar company. He's thinking of leaving, and wants to know if I've heard of anything for him."
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 at 75 I'll try that."