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...home, Einstein is almost unvaryingly gentle, even-tempered, meekly obedient-and impersonal. He has never tried to explain relativity to his family. His scientific life is strictly solitary. When, as often happens even at mealtimes, he falls into long mathematical reveries, his family is careful not to disturb him. This cool detachment extends even to his closest personal relationships. When his wife died eight years ago, Einstein turned stoically "from her bedside, said quietly: "Bury...
Sirs: . . . Even three days later the story seems as up-to-date as some newspaper accounts. . . . MARY KELLY KING Cayucos, Calif. Looking Forward Sirs: TIME continues to make statements which disturb me greatly. I speak in reference to your repeated comments about military strategy for World War III. I certainly am not interested in participating in any future war and believe that, if we are to plan an enduring peace, TIME should not entertain its readers with such "potential propaganda." (PFC.) BAXTER S. SCRUGGS Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
...Doubtless there are good things in both, as well as bad," he replied. "I think it is right that there should be new movements, suitable to new generations and periods. They shock and disturb those who are attached to the old institutions, but they are not meant for them. It is true, of course, that although they are intended to be 'for the people,' they end up by being for those who are running the State...
Latest dissident to disturb the art world's prevailing respect for the Museum's taste and influence is Russian-born Sculptor Alexander Archipenko. Archipenko is preparing a book entitled Why I Request to Remove My Works from the Museum of Modern Art. He declines to reveal his reasons until his book is on the counters...
...that time Teacher Rebel's pupils, who had watched frozen in their seats, also started jumping. The teacher calmed them by getting them to pick up the quivering coals, then sent for help. School officials who came on the run found the disturb ance subsiding, but swear that lumps of coal were still trembling. Next day State Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz organized a full-dress investigation. Submitted to lie-detector tests, Teacher Rebel and her pupils got a clean bill of truth-telling health. Chemists in the state colleges closely analyzed the coal. They could find nothing...