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Taking the microphone during a question-and-answer period, Dr. Pauli Murray, professor of American Civilization at Brandeis, observed that the ghetto community could learn a lesson in organization from the American labor movement...
Arnold Toynbee, inarticulate and somber, lunching daily on one banana and two apples. Albert Einstein, vainly seeking one more climactic insight, trudging home, declining rides, saying, "I must walk. I must walk." Physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, coatless in the coldest weather, striding the grounds, muffler flying. Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, while sipping tea in the faculty lounge, writing non-existent equations on an imaginary blackboard, then rubbing them out with an equally imaginary eraser...
...Pauli Murray, the third panelist, (who unsuccessfully petitioned President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Faculty and the Board of Overseers for admission to the Law School before it accepted women) developed the parallel between...
...daughter of a Presbyterian minister into a marriage of convenience only to desert her two months later for a homosexual alliance with a boy he met in California. A collaborator with the Germans after the fall of France, he became a nightclub manager in Hamburg's notorious St. Pauli district and apparently died in Germany after he was arrested for black-marketeering...
Most blatant of the district's toughs was balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...