Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefe, just back from a flying trip to the U.S., wanted to tell about his trip to New York City and especially of his visit with Albert Einstein at Princeton...
...Einstein of siphonapterology was the Hon. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, second son of the first Baron Rothschild of Tring. He was charmed by fleas while still a student at Cambridge, and pursued them the rest of his life. Says Dr. Hubbard: "The Tring Museum ... at Tring, Hertfordshire, has become the flea center of the world." Flea lovers from all over report their discoveries and send offerings (fleas) to Tring...
...Senate's Atomic Energy Committee to testify to Lilienthal's experience, ability and ideology. Scientists,' religious groups, plain citizens rallied to the Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast atomic projects...
...poets and philosophers gathered in Princeton last week. They were there to help 200-year-old Princeton honor its own past by planning for the world's future. The problem: what is a university's responsibility to One World? The visitors (and such local talent as Albert Einstein) argued for three days, in lecture halls and over coffee. Nationalism came in for some heavy blows from everybody...
Died. Dr. Morris Raphael Cohen, 66, Russian-born philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, writer and wit; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. The big-domed professor was an intimate of famous minds (Einstein, Cardozo, Holmes), a sharp-tongued champion of students, author of several notable books (Faith of a Liberal...