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Died. Jekuthiel Ginsburg, 68, gentle, absent-minded Polish-Jewish emigre professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University, founder (1932) and editor of the quarterly Scripta Mathematica, onetime child prodigy (he tutored university students when he was 16), author (Numbers and Numerals); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...forgetfulness. Born in Vitebsk, Russia, in 1895, Dr. Velikovsky studied "a little zoology and botany" in Edinburgh in 1914. Later he got an M.D. from Moscow Imperial University, and practiced medicine in Palestine from 1923 to 1939. His only other employment has been a job as editor of Scripta Universitatis, a Palestinian magazine subsidized by his father. His knowledge of many sciences is self-taught. Says Dr. Velikovsky: "I still need learning myself. One lifetime is not enough to learn all that must be known." His book is causing as much advance excitement as if it had been co-authored...
...OBITER SCRIPTA-George Santayana-Scribner ($2.50). Collection of scattered lectures, essays, reviews by the onetime Harvard philosopher whose first novel (The Last Puritan, TIME, Feb. 3) made him a best-seller...
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