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...bulletin board in Fine Hall this elderly man was listed as "A. Einstein," occupant of Room No. 215. A small brick building with heavy-paneled doors and antique lamps glowing dimly in the linoleum-floored corridors, Fine Hall-houses the mathematical contingent of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. The Institute, which soon will have buildings of its own, is a group of distinguished scholars who are subsidized so that they may pursue their own researches without the distraction of giving courses, preparing examinations, grading papers. Many of the Institute's members are Jewish exiles from Germany. Directed...
...Fine Hall last week there were whispered conferences and quiet telephone conversations. A surprise party was being planned for A. Einstein and another member of the Institute, Dr. Leopold Infeld. The mathematicians made great efforts to keep the party a secret from Dr. Infeld. It was not so difficult to keep it a secret from Dr. Einstein. On the day of the party this week a book† will be published of which Drs. Einstein & Infeld are coauthors, the first "popular" book on physics to which Albert Einstein has ever lent his name...
...idea of an explanation for laymen of modern physics and its origins was first suggested by Infeld. But Albert Einstein had been long fondling such a notion, readily agreed. Although he now speaks English quite well, Einstein is still reluctant to write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed...
...called on James Roosevelt to ask him to run for Lieutenant Governor next autumn. James Roosevelt said he would think it over. In New York, a committee headed by onetime Ambassador to Germany James Gerard announced that at an elaborate reception on April 3 it would present an Albert Einstein medal to the President's 83-year-old mother Mrs. James Roosevelt for "a lifetime of devoted service to every communal cause in the country...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment...