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...greatest neuropathologists of Europe was last week denied a license to practice medicine in New York. In 1938 Dr. Otto Marburg and his wife left Vienna on the same train with their late great friend Sigmund Freud. They went to the U.S., Freud to Britain. In New York City, 66-year-old Dr. Marburg was given a Rockefeller research grant, a professor's title at Columbia, a laboratory in vast Montefiore Hospital...
...examination in the whole field of medicine, like any young medical student (an impossibly tough obstacle for a specialist who left medical school 42 years ago). Last spring, moved by the pleas of top-flight neurologists, the Appellate Division called the Regents unreasonable, ordered them to give Dr. Marburg a license, under a statute which waives an examination for eminent doctors...
...stubborn Regents carried the case to the Court of Appeals, highest in the State. Last week the judges upheld them, said they could refuse Dr. Marburg his license once & for all. In court, the Regents frankly admitted that they were acting to protect the practices of New York physicians from the competition of refugees, not all of whom are so eminent as Dr. Marburg nor so scrupulous about how they get business. The Regents did not bring up the point that there is a great shortage of neurologists and psychiatrists...
...Marburg wants to examine a patient, he will have to take a licensed physician along...
...Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at Los Angeles is famed Composer Arnold Schönberg. At Columbia University is renowned Viennese Neurologist Otto Marburg. Alvin Johnson's own Institute has on its graduate faculty ("University in Exile") Fernando de los Rios, onetime Spanish Ambassador; Erwin Piscator, onetime director of Berlin's People's Theatre; Economist Fritz Lehmann, many another scholar from Germany, Austria, Italy...