Merryle Rukeyser
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Merryle Rukeyser (January 3, 1897-December 21, 1988), father of Louis Rukeyser, graduated from Columbia University's Pulitzer school in 1915, and four years later received a masters degree in economics also from Columbia. He became a financial journalist first for the New York Tribune and then the New York Evening Journal. In 1924, he wrote the well-known book The Common Sense of Money and Investments.
By 1930 he became an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism and was writing the syndicated financial column "Everybody's Money", appearing daily in 110 newspapers.
