. Eleanor Drorbaugh interview with Jamie Sayen, in Sayen, 64, 74.
9
. Sayen, 69; Bucky, 111; Folsing, 732.
10
. “Had Pronounced Sense of Humor,”
, Dec. 22, 1936.
11
. Brian 1996, 265.
12
. Abraham Flexner to Einstein, Oct. 13, 1933, in Regis, 34.
13
. “Einstein, the Immortal, Shows Human Side,” (Newark)
, Nov. 12, 1933.
14
. Abraham Flexner to Elsa Einstein, Nov. 14, 1933, AEA 38-055.
15
. Abraham Flexner to Elsa Einstein, Nov. 15, 1933, AEA 38-059. Flexner also wrote to Herbert Maass, an Institute trustee, on Nov. 14, 1933: “I am beginning to weary a little of this daily necessity of ‘sitting down’ on Einstein and his wife. They do not know America. They are the merest children, and they are extremely difficult to advise and control. You have no idea the barrage of publicity I have intercepted.” Batterson, 152.
16
. Abraham Flexner to Einstein, Nov. 15, 1933, AEA 38-061.
17
. “Fiddling for Friends,”
, Jan. 29, 1934; “Einstein in Debut as Violinist Here,”
, Jan. 18, 1934.
18
. Stephen Wise to Judge Julian Mack, Oct. 20, 1933.
19
. Col. Marvin MacIntyre report to the White House Social Bureau, Dec. 7, 1933, AEA 33-131; Abraham Flexner to Franklin Roosevelt, Nov. 3, 1933; Einstein to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 21, 1933, AEA 33-129; Eleanor Roosevelt to Einstein, Dec. 4, 1933, AEA 33-130; Elsa Einstein to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 16, 1934, AEA 33-132; Einstein to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, Jan. 25, 1934, AEA 33-134; “Einstein Chats about Sea,”
, Jan. 26, 1934.
20
. Einstein to Board of Trustees of the IAS, Dec. 1–31, 1933.
21
. Johanna Fantova, Journal of conversations with Einstein, Jan. 23, 1954, in Calaprice, 354.
22
. Einstein to Max Born, Mar. 22, 1934; Erwin Schrodinger to Frederick Linde-mann, Mar. 29, 1934, Jan. 22, 1935.
23
. Einstein to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, Nov. 20, 1933, AEA 32-369. The line is usually translated as “puny demigods on stilts.” The word Einstein uses,
, means stiff-legged,
the legs were wooden stilts. It has nothing to do with height. Instead, it evokes the gait of a peacock.
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