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Einstein uses, stelzbeinig, means stiff-legged, as if the legs were wooden stilts. It has nothing to do with height. Instead, it evokes the gait
of a peacock.
24. Einstein, “The Negro Question,”Pageant , Jan. 1946. In this essay, he was juxtaposing the generally democratic social tendency of
Americans to the way they treated blacks. That became more of an issue for him than it was back in 1934, as will be noted later in this
book.
25. Bucky, 45; “Einstein Farewell,”Time , Mar. 14, 1932.
26. Vallentin, 235. See also Elsa Einstein to Hertha Einstein (wife of music historian Alfred Einstein, a distant cousin), Feb. 24, 1934, AEA 37-
693: “The place is charming, altogether different from the rest of America . . . Here everything is tinged with Englishness—downright
Oxford style.”
27. “Einstein Cancels Trip Abroad,”New York Times , Apr. 2, 1934.
28. Marianoff, 178. Other sources report that Ilse’s ashes, or at least some of them, were brought to a cemetery in Holland, to a place chosen
by the widower Rudi Kayser.
29. This entire story is from an interview given by the Blackwoods’ son James to Denis Brian on Sept. 7, 1994, and is detailed in Brian 1996,
259–263.
30. Ibid. See also James Blackwood, “Einstein in the Rear-View Mirror,”Princeton History , Nov. 1997.
31. “Einstein Inventor of Camera Device,”New York Times , Nov. 27, 1936.
32. Bucky, 5. Bucky’s book is written, in part, as a running conversation, though there are sections that actually draw from other Einstein
interviews and writings.
33. Bucky, 16–21.
34. New York Times , Aug. 4, 1935; Brian 1996, 265, 280.
35. Vallentin, 237.
36. Brian 1996, 268.
37. Fölsing, 687; Brian 1996, 279.
38. Calaprice, 251.
39. Bucky, 25.
40. Clark, 622.
41. Pais 1982, 454.
42. Jon Blackwell, “The Genius Next Door,”The Trentonian , www.capitalcentury.com/1933.html; Seelig 1956a, 193; Sayen, 78; Brian 1996,
330.
43. Einstein to Barbara Lee Wilson, Jan. 7, 1943, AEA 42-606; Dukas and Hoff-mann, 8; “Einstein Solves Problem That Baffled Boys,”New
York Times , June 11, 1937.
44. “Einstein Gives Advice to a High School Boy,”New York Times , Apr. 14, 1935; Sayen, 76.
45. Elsa Einstein to Leon Watters, Dec. 10, 1935, AEA 52-210.
46. Vallentin, 238.
47. Bucky, 13.
48. Einstein to Hans Albert Einstein, Jan. 4, 1937, AEA 75-926.
49. Hoffmann 1972, 231.
50. Einstein, “Lens-like Action of a Star by Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field,”Science (Dec. 1936); Einstein with Nathan Rosen, “On
Gravitational Waves,”Journal of the Franklin Institute (Jan. 1937). The gravitational wave paper was originally submitted to Physical
Review. Editors there sent it to a referee, who noted flaws. Einstein was outraged, withdrew the paper, and had it published instead by the
Franklin Institute. He then realized he was wrong after all (after the anonymous referee indirectly let him know), and he and Rosen juggled
many modifications, just as Elsa was dying. Daniel Kinneflick uncovered the details of this saga and provides a fascinating acount in
“Einstein versus the Physical Review,”Physics Today (Sept. 2005).
51. Einstein to Max Born, Feb. 1937, in Born 2005, 128.
52. Einstein, “The Causes of the Formation of Meanders in the Courses of Rivers and of the So-Called Baer’s Law,” Jan. 7, 1926.
53. “Dr. Einstein Welcomes Son to America,”New York Times , Oct. 13, 1937.
54. Bucky, 107.
55. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Dec. 21, 1937, AEA 75-938.
56. Einstein to Frieda Einstein, Apr. 11, 1937, AEA 75-929.
57. Robert Ettema and Cornelia F. Mutel, “Hans Albert Einstein in South Carolina,” Water Resources and Environmental History , June 27,
2004; “Einstein’s Son Asks Citizenship,”New York Times , Dec. 22, 1938. He applied for citizenship on Dec. 21, 1938, at the U.S.
District Court in Greenville, S.C. Some biographies have him living in Greensboro, N.C., at the time, but that is incorrect.
58. Einstein to Hans Albert and Frieda Einstein, Jan. 1939; James Shannon,“Einstein in Greenville,”The Beat (Greenville, S.C.), Nov. 17,
2001.
59. Highfield and Carter, 242.
60. “Hitler Is ‘Greatest’ in Princeton Poll: Freshmen Put Einstein Second and Chamberlain Third,”New York Times , Nov. 28, 1939. The story
reports that this was for the second year in a row.
61. Collier’s , Nov. 26, 1938; Einstein 1954, 191.
62. Sayen, 344; “Einstein Fiddles,”Time , Feb. 3, 1941. Time reported of a little concert in Princeton for the American Friends Service
Committee: “Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience
applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his
encore, peered at the watch again, retired.”
63. Jerome, 77.
64. Einstein to Isaac Don Levine, Dec. 10, 1934, AEA 50-928; Isaac Don Levine, Eyewitness to History (New York: Hawthorne, 1973), 171.
65. Sidney Hook to Einstein, Feb. 22, 1937, AEA 34-731; Einstein to Sidney Hook, Feb. 23, 1937, AEA 34-735.
66. Sidney Hook, “My Running Debate with Einstein,”Commentary , July 1982, 39.