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Repeatedly he returned in his talks with Price to a youthful experience that forever after shaped his thought. In the 1880s, "nearly everything was supposed to be known about physics that could be known ... By the middle of the 1890s, there were a few tremors, a slight shiver as of all not being quite secure, but no one sensed what was coming. By 1900 the Newtonian physics were demolished, done for! ... I have been fooled once, and I'll be damned if I'll be fooled again! . . . There is no more reason to suppose that Einstein...
Ancestry: His grandfather, Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, came to the U.S. in 1865 and changed his name to Harry Warren. Halvar's Norwegian-born son, Methias, and Swedish-born Chrystal Hernlund, who met and married in California in the 1880s, were Earl Warren's parents. Methias became master car repairman for a division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, turned into a mortgage-foreclosing recluse in his later years, was bludgeoned to death in his lonely Bakersfield, Calif, home in 1938. The motive was believed to be robbery; the crime has never been solved...
...dead men." until one committeeman persuaded his reluctant colleagues that it deserved a showing. When Whistler got his Mother back, he pawned it (along with three other paintings) in 1878, then found that he could not do without his Mummy, and redeemed her for ?50. In the early 1880s the picture was exhibited in Philadelphia and New York, offered for sale at $1,000. There were no takers. Then in 1891 the French government, apologizing to the artist for the paltry price, bought the Mother for 4,000 francs ($772), and hung it in the Luxembourg Museum...
Nairobi, the colony's capital, has not really been touched much by the war the white settlers are waging against the Mau Mau terror. You can still walk through the main thoroughfares after midnight alone. Nairobi remains comparatively safe, like a near frontier U.S. town of the 1880s, with Gary Cooper for U.S. marshal. But up-country is another part of the world...
...character of the first 20 years of his life. And he tells about them with an artless lack of point and discrimination that flirts perilously with final boredom. A historian 100 years from now may easily conclude: this is how a Midwestern U.S. town must have looked in the 1880s. But the impression would be only tintype deep, for Author Sandburg has seemingly cared little about looking past the frock coats and working clothes for attitudes and feelings. Moving about from home to school to barbershop, he has recalled a pace of life that the U.S. will surely never know...