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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the longest (328 pages) English-language biography of Physicist Albert Einstein, now the most distinguished resident of Princeton, N. J., was published by H. Gordon Garbedian, a science writer on the staff of the New York Times.* Brightest spots in Mr. Garbedian's book are the Einstein anecdotes. Samples...
...Garbedian's book is illustrated with several photographs never before published. One of these shows Einstein lecturing at the age of 26, when he had just launched the theory that revolutionized physics by destroying the age-old idea of absolute time (see cut). This week, on the day of the book's publication, Albert Einstein was 60. On his birthday he hinted that he had at last developed a "unified field theory" which would link his picture of the universe with the accepted scientific view of the behavior of the atom...
...three years young Surgeon Harvey Graham, assistant editor of the British Medical Journal, grubbed in museums and medical libraries all over Britain. Fortnight ago he published the first popular "storybook of surgery,"* a book of more than 400 pages, crammed with forgotten incidents of scientific history from the neolithic age to 1938. It includes brief biographies which bring to life such geniuses as Galen, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, John Hunter, William Harvey, Joseph Lister. Bits from Dr. Graham's story...
Satevepost readers did not know that Author Marquand's original Wickford Point was twice as long and nearly twice as biting. This week the book appeared in its uncut form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction...
...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...