Word: werners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Harvard student, Bernard O. Koopmann '22, Ph.D. '26, now assistant professor of Mathematics at Columbia, will return for the school year as Lecturer on Mathematics. In Psychology, Harvard will have another distinguished visitor in the person of Dr. Heinz Werner, of the University of Hamburg, last year a Lecturer at the University of Michigan. Dr. Werner's special field of research has been in various aspects of the psychology of the senses and of speech. His courses this year will cover the "Psychology of Personality," "Developmental Psychology," and "Social Psychology...
...Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, of the University of Berlin, Classical Philology...
Albert Einstein's wife was ill, so he sent word that he could not attend. He was to have read a paper "On Some Approximate and Rigorous Solutions of the Field Equations." Another Nobel Prizewinner who was expected to attend but did not was cocky young Werner Heisenberg of Germany, author of the famed "Uncertainty Principle" which has severely shaken the rule of Cause & Effect in physical science. Just as he was getting ready to leave Leipzig, at whose university he has been a professor for nine of his 35 years, the Uncertainty Principle's author was ordered...
TIME errs again. On p. 53 of your issue of Aug. 3, under Milestones, you state that the late Brigham Young had 19 wives. You do him an injustice. He was a faithful husband to 27 wives, according to Brigham Young by M. R. Werner (p. 333). As a strictly gentile historian I might also point out that his 56 children were born to him by 16 wives, that eleven of his wives had no children...
...Conductor Ernest Ansermet. That spry, bearded Swiss gave modern Russian music many a first performance when he played for the old Diaghilev Ballet, has since guest-conducted in Europe and South America. Other Ravinia conductors who passed muster with Mrs. Eckstein were to be Willem van Hoogstraten. Hans Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane to California to open the agreeable summer concerts of the Hollywood Bowl...