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...every satirical revue can find two pleasant new ways of ribbing Hollywood: once in a studio scene where a trained gorilla seems, by comparison with the leading lady, a mental Einstein; and once when three stars who proved box-office as slatterns (Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman) chant their triumphal formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music...
Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito...
Vincent Sheean, veteran foreign correspondent, sat in Vermont in the summer of 1947 and pored over Marx, Freud and Einstein with the earnestness of a junior getting up a term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...
...Professor Albert Einstein, Dr. Sigmund Freud, Dr. Theodore Herzl, T. S. Eliot...
...first trip abroad, a lanky six-footer who used "mouth-filling sesquipedalian words," wore high-necked collars, and was determined to become Shaw's Boswell. He had taken one mathematics Ph.D. at North Carolina, took another at the University of Chicago. In between, he studied under Einstein at the University of Berlin...