Word: liebers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder, set in a still fancier...
...LESLIE LIEBER c/o Postmaster New York City...
...Mits (standing for The Celebrated Man in the Street) is a fellow with an ordinary-sized head living in an outsize universe. The Education of T. C. Mits (Hugh Gray Lieber and Lillian R. Lieber; W. W. Norton; $2.50) is a book which tries to tell him something about modern mathematics. While nowhere near as solid as Lancelot Hogben's famed Mathematics for the Million, it is one of the liveliest and most ornamental of the mathematics popularizers. The chief moral pointed by the authors is .that things are not always what they seem, so watch your thinking...
...Lieber is balding and plump, Mrs. Lieber middle-aged and kindly. He comes from Missouri, she from Russia. Albert Einstein and other top-flight savants like to read what the Liebers write. At Long Island University they have founded the Galois Institute of Mathematics,* to which the greatest U.S. mathematicians contribute expositions of their favorite subjects in what they hope is simple English...
...nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection? Is that beautiful stuff! Ach, du lieber...