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...that theme, Physicist Rabi, 68, who was born in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, grew up in New York's Lower East Side and went on from a Ph.D. at Columbia University to become one of the nation's pioneer nuclear researchers, ended 37 years of teaching at Columbia. A 1944 Nobel prizewinner, Rabi developed the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance theories that laid the foundation for microwave radar, lasers, masers and modern radio astronomy. He was a consultant to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb, and was one of the men responsible for creating...
When Vienna-born Dr. Fredrick Carl Redlich was tapped in 1951 to head the department of psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine, he dreaded administrative duties. Over the years, he jokes, "they said that I ran the department like the old Austro-Hungarian empire-with absolutism mitigated by sloppiness." He improved his technique enough to suit Yale; last week University President Kingman Brewster Jr. announced the appointment of Dr. Redlich, 56, to be dean of the School of Medicine. Come July 1, he will succeed Pediatrician Vernon W. Lippard, 62, who will become a special adviser...
Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic...
...years following, he was, by his own admission, "thrown out of every school in Austria. I absolutely hated school-all that stupid talk." Aloof even then, he was dubbed "the irritable Christ" by his mother. At 14, he finally convinced his father, chairman of the board of the Austro-Hungarian steel trust, that he should be tutored privately. He took up singing and he tried painting, but he soon decided that both his baritone and brush were too shaky, so he got a job in a Vienna bookshop...
Proudest Possession. Not too long ago, Jack Javits might have deemed himself fortunate indeed to have gotten even crumbs. Reared on the abrading edge of self-sufficiency, he was the second son of Morris Jawetz, a former Talmudic scholar in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ida Littman, daughter of a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman from Vienna who abandoned his family. Morris' proudest possession?about his only one?was his name; he traced its origin to a Biblical family of scribes that lived at Jabez (/ Chronicles 2: 55) near Jerusalem. He changed its spelling after arriving...