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Physicist Oppenheimer, who reads eight languages including Sanskrit, will be the Institute for Advanced Study's third director (his predecessors: Abraham Flexner and Frank Aydelotte). Oppy favors porkpie hats and good horses. During the war he and his wife traveled by horseback from their Pecos Valley ranch to Los Alamos, to the considerable mortification of a tenderfoot FBI agent who had to ride along. Oppy's pet peeve: anybody who underestimates the Bomb ("Its limitations? The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving...
...Colorado, the fur flew. The cause of the commotion was a grey, chunky, 75-year-old woman, who stumped up & down the state, making three speeches a day, buttonholing businessmen, doctors, politicians, writing letters morning & night. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, "the greatest living woman scientist" (according to Dr. Simon Flexner, late famed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research), was out to reduce Colorado's shockingly high death rate from disease...
Died. Dr. Simon Flexner, 83, world-famed pathologist who discovered the organisms which cause bacillary dysentery, influenza, spinal meningitis and polio; in Manhattan. Appointed director of the newly formed Rockefeller Institute in 1903, he stayed on the job 32 years, nursed the Institute from a scientific fledgling to an organization of worldwide scope and importance...
Died. Bernard Flexner, 80, whose Kentucky-born brothers Abraham and Simon directed, respectively, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, himself founder of the Palestine Economic Corp. for the economic rehabilitation and development of the Jewish homeland; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
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...