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Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake...
...years ago, Jacob Bronowski, a Polish-born, English-educated mathematician, historian and biologist, traced man's scientific development in a widely acclaimed 13-part BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, which will reach U.S. TV audiences next season. Now he has adapted his scripts into a book. The result is a long (100,000 words), fascinating, beautifully illustrated essay about the qualities of curiosity, imagination and inventiveness that lead man to explore the world and the invisible laws that order it. The book is also an exercise in optimism. With so many scientists predicting that humanity will destroy...
Died. Nathan Handwerker, 83, founder of Nathan's Famous, the Coney Island hot-dog emporium; following a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polish-born, Handwerker came to the U.S. in 1912 with $28 and much energy. He went to work in Manhattan as a delivery boy, moonlighting weekends at Feltman's, Coney Island birthplace of the hot dog. Encouraged by two singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Handwerker in 1916 took his savings of $300 and set up his own nickel hot-dog stand, slicing Feltman's price in half. The business grew into a multimillion...
...started out organizing Jewish workers and wrote for a small labor weekly. Eventually his political activities on behalf of Zionism so angered Turkish authorities that they exiled Ben-Gurion and forbade him ever "to set foot on Palestinian soil." He went to the U.S., met and married a Polish-born Brooklyn nurse named Paula Munweiss. After he became famous, she liked to tease him by saying that he had spent part of their wedding night at a Zionist meeting...
Unpopular Cases. The son of a Polish-born minister who served in Waco's First Evangelical Free Church, Jaworski was just 19 when he got his law degree from Baylor University. He went on to a spectacular career as a courtroom practitioner known for his tough but ethical cross-examinations. After World War II, Colonel Jaworski led the prosecution of the U.S. Army's war-crimes trials (the forerunners of those at Nuremberg). In civilian life, he often took on unpopular cases in the South, including the defense of a black who had murdered a white couple...