Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Einstein, vacationing at Saranac Lake, N.Y., went sailing with several friends in an 18-ft. boat, capsized in choppy water, had to be rescued by motorboat...
Irresistible Elevator Man. Einstein's softheartedness has forced his family to form a protective cordon against salesmen and favor seekers. Not long ago an elevator company called Dr. Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study, whom Einstein had given as a reference, and announced that it had an order to install an elevator in Einstein's two-story Princeton house. Exclaimed Flexner: "In heaven's name, Albert, what would you do with an elevator?" Replied Einstein: "I do not know, but the man who came to interest me in it-I liked...
Gadgets and Dowagers. Einstein, whose love of music and sailing is well known, also likes to visit 5-&-10 stores, admiring their glittering gadgets. When a friend gave him a zipper bag, Einstein delightedly zipped and unzipped it again & again. He hates strenuous exercise, pretentious people. The usual conversational approach of dowagers when introduced to him is to ask him to explain his relativity theory. Einstein sometimes obliges, soon reduces them to stunned silence...
...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...
...William Rothenstein once painted Einstein's portrait in Berlin. Throughout the sittings the great man conversed steadily with a thickspectacled stranger who sat in a corner looking "like an ancient tortoise." From time to time the stranger shook his head solemnly, and Einstein, crestfallen, would relapse into temporary silence. When Sir William took his final leave, Einstein explained apologetically: "He is my mathematician, who examines the problems I place before him and checks on their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...