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Jack H. Weinberger had been a lawyer in Virginia. After his retirement at the end of the 1960’s he moved to West Caldwell, New Jersey where some of his family and relations lived. JHW, as he marked his pipes later, was a lifelong passionate pipe smoker. He is reported to have smoked one pipe each day from rising till hitting the bed again filled with his own chocolate mixture, which he successfully marketed later on. | [[Image:Jhw2.jpg|thumb|left|Courtesy Richard Friedman]]Jack H. Weinberger had been a lawyer in Virginia. After his retirement at the end of the 1960’s he moved to West Caldwell, New Jersey where some of his family and relations lived. JHW, as he marked his pipes later, was a lifelong passionate pipe smoker. He is reported to have smoked one pipe each day from rising till hitting the bed again filled with his own chocolate mixture, which he successfully marketed later on. | ||
Probably he looked for some waste of time and made friends with pipemaker [[Max Schulte]] in Maplewood, NJ. As Schulte’s son Howard reported, Weinberger often sat in his father’s workshop for hours and hours, enjoying his pipe and a mug of coffee and simply watching. This was JHW’s "training" to become a pipemaker! Thus he may be called an “eyedidact” rather than an autodidact. | Probably he looked for some waste of time and made friends with pipemaker [[Max Schulte]] in Maplewood, NJ. As Schulte’s son Howard reported, Weinberger often sat in his father’s workshop for hours and hours, enjoying his pipe and a mug of coffee and simply watching. This was JHW’s "training" to become a pipemaker! Thus he may be called an “eyedidact” rather than an autodidact. | ||