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...Princeton. N.J., Albert Einstein ignored his 73rd birthday. Said his secretary: "He doesn't care about his birthday at all. He won't even have a birthday cake...
...Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant in the U.S. and Britain today, which suggests that philosophy is merely a tool for the logical analysis of limited propositions. Adler hates the positivists' guts, and they his. * Students in his first class: Clifton...
Months of calculations based on Monday's observations will test the accuracy of Einstein's theory that the sun's gravitational field bends star light rays passing close...
...accuracy of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity may be determined by the Harvard Observatory soon. The Observatory received a wire yesterday from the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, indicating that positive results may come from photographs taken of Monday's eclipse...
Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein,* 71, who as a child used to make "a lot of noise" on the violin, then turned from play to study and became one of the world's great musicologists, a ranking authority on Mozart and his works; of a heart ailment; in El Cerrito, Calif. In 1933, Einstein saw the handwriting on Hitler's wall, fled to Britain, in 1939 came to the U.S., where his success in his specialty led him finally to refer to Hitler ironically as "my greatest benefactor...