Word: norbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRODIGY: MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (309 pp)-Norbert Wiener-Simon & Schuster...
...seven, Norbert Wiener was already interested in chemistry and physics, so his college-professor father set up a small laboratory for him in their home in Cambridge, Mass. But since Norbert was not the kind of lad to lose himself in sterile specialization, he also looked into zoology botany-particularly into "structure and the problems of growth." It soon became clear that little Norbert was a scientific prodigy, one of the most brilliant ever to appear in the U.S. At nine he entered high school; at eleven he was enrolled at Tufts College, a dumpy little boy with thick glasses...
...Prodigy is Norbert Wiener's memoir of his difficult years as a child genius. Now a mathematics professor at M.I.T. and a pioneer in the development of machines to do the work of men (Cybernetics-TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), he has written a book that rivals in psychological interest, if not in literary skill, the recollections of such other youthful prodigies as John Stuart Mill and Samuel Butler...
Robber's Mite. In Detroit, Norbert Schroll, protesting to a gunman who had lifted $56.10 from his wallet that he was on his way to church, got back $1.10 and a growl: "That ought to be enough for the collection plate...
...Little Knowledge ... In Green Bay, Wis., St. Norbert College Professor John Bartone reported that 350 "highly trained" cockroaches were missing from...