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Another big step in Haydn scholarship was taken in Manhattan last week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe...
...Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
Prof. Albert Einstein, No. 1 victim of the Aryanizing of German science, from his retreat at Princeton today wired encouragement to the Cambridge cientists and educators who are commemorating Lincoln's birthday next Sunday evening with a meeting at Sanders Theatre in behalf of democracy and intellectual freedom...
...Personal conviction is not enough . . . only keen and constant vigilance, determination and readiness for sacrifice of each and all of us can render us secure against such a fate as that which we see with out eyes spreading over Europe," Einstein wired...
...German Exile Thomas Mann, German Exile Albert Einstein presented the 1939 Albert Einstein medal for humanitarian service...