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Albert Einstein, delighted with Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik's book, Listening with the Third Ear, sat down and wrote the author a little mash note: "I have read your book with sincere admiration . . . I am of course merely a layman, but I have a natural scientific interest." Winston Churchill had also found a new enthusiasm. "Lately," he confided, "I have taken to farming in a modest way ... I think that if I had heard about it when I was young I probably should never have gone into politics...
...Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Führer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich...
Died. Thomas Theodor Heine,*80, cofounder, cartoonist and guiding genius of Germany's late great humor magazine Simplicissimus; in Stockholm. Sharp-penned Heine was jailed for making fun of the Kaiser, exiled in 1933 for making fun of Hitler. In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes...
Last week the results of their work, with the deadpan title, Experimental Air-Borne Infection, were published (Williams & Wilkins: $4). This project's chief was serious, dark-eyed Theodor Rosebury,* now back at his old job as associate professor in the department of bacteriology at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. The book does for bacteriological warfare what the Smyth report did for atomic warfare. But nowhere in the book are the horrid words "bacterial warfare" even mentioned...
...Rudolf Paul, Minister President of Thuringia; Theodor Plivier, longtime Communist writer, whose book called Stalingrad won him Soviet kudos; Jena's Mayor Heinrich Mertens; Mühlhausen's Mayor Heinrich Stuecker; Mine Director Hans Grassman, who had bossed four Soviet workings in Saxony, where 10,000 conscripted Germans were mining for uranium...