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...seems fitting, somehow, that the night nurse who stood alone by the deathbed of Albert Einstein did not understand German, and that the scientist's last words were consequently lost to the world. For Einstein, besides being one of history's greatest thinkers, was a figure to revere and love rather than to epitomize in a few phrases in a dictionary of last words, such as the one published recently...
...also seems appropriate that the world did not learn of Einstein's death until seven hours after it had occurred, and that his hospitalization had received no publicity at all. He was not a man to suffer a long, tense illness and then to die dramatically amidst a roomful of relatives and friends. As he himself said, "I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family...
...believes that birthdays are for children, Physicist Albert Einstein seemed slightly startled when friends reminded him that he would turn 76 this week. Even more than birthdays, however, Dr. Einstein deplores birthday interviews. But he was duly goaded into a typical bit of self-depreciation. "The world is no longer interested in me," said he at his office in Princeton's brain-crammed Institute for Advanced Study. "I do not consider myself important any more. First, I was nobody, and then I became famous and people developed illusions of greatness about me that were untrue. Now I plan...
...undoubtedly a scientist of high order, that fact does not equip him to hold an opinion better than the rest of us who may not know how to make heavy water, but who know and feel the claims of justice." When Harold Urey comments on American law, or Albert Einstein comments on the United Nations, it seems obvious that they are influential beyond their authority in the political fields they discuss...
After plodding through the 301 pages of The Drama of Albert, Einstein, a book sent to her by an admirer, winsome Songstress Dinah Shore, now burbling her old favorites (e.g., It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House and Blues in the Night) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, ventured a timid literary criticism. "I've concluded, honey," sighed she, "that it's easier to understand relatives than relativity...