Word: marianoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This family's-eye view of genius was written by Son-in-Law Dimitri Marianoff, husband of Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, in collaboration with Writer Palma Wayne. Marianoff, who lived with the Einstein family for eight years, reports that the Einstein home in Princeton is visited by a constant stream of the world's great-statesmen, bankers, diplomats, composers, actors, writers, scientists. Hordes of correspondents from every corner of the world ask him for advice, money, help in scientific problems and personal affairs. He is deluged with gifts, which he almost invariably sends back; he once refused...
...Government insisted on a Scotland Yard convoy wherever he went; pretty young society girls stood guard with rifles outside his hideaway on the English seacoast. At Manhattan's gilded Metropolitan Opera House, audiences have been known to rise to salute his entrance in the midst of an aria. Marianoff tells of overhearing a mother say to her small son in a city street: "There is Albert Einstein. Don't ever forget that you have seen...
Einstein remains a fabulously simple, modest human being.* Says Marianoff...
...only with an unpainted table, a few unpainted shelves, a pencil and paper for his mathematical calculations. Though his salary from the Institute for Advanced Study is $20,000 a year (four times the sum he suggested when the Institute asked him to name his own figure, according to Marianoff), he has never owned a car, fights off his family's efforts to make him buy a new suit, stops only at cheap hotels when he travels...
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