Word: gottleib
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DIED. "BROTHER" THEODORE GOTTLEIB, 94, deadpan performer of what he called "stand-up tragedy"; in Manhattan. In wartime Europe, Gottleib was carted to Dachau but used his family's money to buy his freedom from the Nazis and was assisted to California by Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...