With a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University, he returned to Salomon in 1934 to work in its municipal bond department, at $48 a week.
“In those days, you had to be an excellent mathematician,” he told Bloomberg Radio in 1999. “You didn’t have computers -- although there were slide rules, none of us used them -- and we were all able to do even complicated arithmetic in our heads.”
Glickenhaus took law classes at night at New York University, earning his degree in 1938. He left Salomon to form Glickenhaus & Lembo -- declining, he said, Herbert Salomon’s offer to double his weekly salary.
“I told the partners, ‘There goes $1 million walking out the door,”’ Charles J. Simon, a Salomon Brothers general partner at the time, told Bloomberg News in 1994, referring to Glickenhaus.
Glickenhaus worked for U.S. Army intelligence during World War II. In 1944, he married the former Sarah Brody. She survives him, as does their daughter and their son, James, a screenwriter and car collector, plus four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Long interested in politics, Glickenhaus was among hundreds of Americans listed by President Richard Nixon’s administration as “enemies.” The list was given to the Internal Revenue Service in 1972 with instruction to “see what type of information could be developed” about those named.
In a 1997 interview with the Times, Glickenhaus said he landed on the list for seeking approval from the New York Stock Exchange to close his firm for one day to protest the Vietnam War. Denied permission, he took out newspaper ads saying the firm would instead donate money to antiwar groups. When he found out he made Nixon’s list, “it was the proudest day of my life,” he told the Times.
The family has supported charities through the Glickenhaus Foundation, which distributed almost $9.4 million in 2010, including $4 million to the Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Friedman Brain Institute in New York City.