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Most of the time the tousle-headed man laughed also. But occasionally his eyes looked frightened, his left hand opened and shut nervously. Then the quiet woman would lean toward him, pat his hand. She, Frau Elsa Einstein Einstein, knew that the world must continue making its legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows...
Fortnight ago the two started for U. S. from their small apartment home in Haberlandstrasse, Berlin. Frau Einstein had a busy time preparing for their long journey. So soon as Dr. Einstein announced last month that he would make his second trip to the U. S. to visit his scientific friends Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, University of Chicago physicist, and Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (TIME, Nov. 24), scores of U. S. private citizens, public officials, clubs, and universities sent invitations for teas, dinners, receptions. Frau Einstein, who is her husband...
...Frau Einstein is immensely proud of her husband. Says she: "He works like an artist. He sees a vision ... he works feverishly ... his temperature rises, his face becomes flushed and in his eyes there appears a far-away-look." When he is working hard on his theories she makes a rite of leaving him alone. "All these things I must do so that he will think he is free. ... He is all my life. ... He is worth it. ... I like being Mrs. Einstein very much. It is very important...
...Frau Einstein had with difficulty persuaded him on this second trip to grant U. S. newsgatherers the short interview on the Belgenland.∙ After it she saw him receive the warmest reception ever given by Manhattan to a scientist. Crowds and applause followed him when he went ashore to dinner with Dr. Paul Schwarz, the German consul; when he had luncheon with Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall...
After four busy days in port, Dr. & Frau Einstein steamed away aboard the Belgenland via Panama for San Diego, Calif, where Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan will meet them. Their California hostess will be a pleasant, greying woman who also knows what it is to be the wife of a famed scientist, Mrs. Robert Andrews Millikan. Born in Oak Park, Ill. she married Dr. Millikan 28 years ago. When she has time, she goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband...