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Breakdowns, Breakthroughs
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his arrival in the United States, he
As for near misses, flow about these
n spite of what our friends say,
reconstructed most of his material
for famous mistakes in the world of
and in spite of what our ene-
from memory. His one mistake,
science.
mies say, Jews are not all suc-
E=mc3, caused him to miss the Nobel
* The marriage of Dr. Oscar Weis-
cessful. In fact, some do rather
Prize by just one number. ❑
skopf, the dean of medical
poorly. And some, like these,
research at Johns Hopkins
do rotten.
** All of the above was taken, by per-
University, to Nancy
* Jewish Dior, dress manu-
mission, from The Unorthodox Book of
Fineblit of Miami on May
facturer, 7th Ave. and 35th
Jewish Records and Lists by Allan
30, 1961. The former Miss
St., Manhattan, 1933-77,
Gould and Danny Siegel, Millenium
Fineblit caused the brilliant
now Miami Beach, Fla.
Publishing Group.
Dr. Weisskopf nothing but
* Marvin Stone, inventor
heartache and woe; while, if
/-9of the "Pet Stone," which he
he had followed his heart,
began to sell at his Marv's
he would have married
Variety in Grand Rapids,
Tammy Semmelman, a
Mich., three weeks after the
SY MANELLO witty and charming neigh-
Pet Rock craze began.
Editorial Assistant bor and a first cousin of
* Chanukah Coward, an
M ara Jv Fleis ch mon?:
the(**) publisher, who
unproduced songwriter and
would have given him a proper and
playwright, mal-vivant and wit(less) of
Once said a plain peahen
peaceful Jewish home so that he might
Spokane, Wash.
named Lee,
have been free to cure heart disease,
* Hans Jewish Anderson, a story
!Accessories are nice to see.
psoriasis and God knows what else.
teller at the Newark Public Library
That peacock, it seems,
* Zygmund "Sammuel" Samuel-
* Lawrence Cutratesky, manufac-
Though,
went to extremes.
son's formula explaining the essence of
turer of Six-Up, a diet soft drink in
uhn
jpahtchkit* fbr me!"
He's
too
reality. A tinkerer and toy maker
non-returnable bottles with a return-
working in a Russian patent office at
able cap.
omatic — overdone;
the turn of the century, he was forced
* Reuben Kubelovitch, creator of
ostentatious.
to leave his scientific notes behind
"Reuben's Cube," which has eight
when he escaped the revolution. Upon
sides and 16 possible combinations.
Since seven of its sides are the same
color, it takes the average four-year-old
less than five seconds to solve the puz-
zle; Reuben would take over three
hours.
"This is not a bazaar at which we are haggling over a price."
The polio vaccine, of which we are
—Elan Steinberg, of the World Jewish Congress,
very proud. The Wasserman test, of
on the impasse between Swiss banks and Jewish organizations over
which we are proud. The atom bomb,
reparations for Holocaust survivors.
which we would rather not talk about.
But what is to come?
"In our minds, we're not married yet. We're not married before God."
* Lobsters with scales.
—"Homicide" star Yaphet Kotto, on why he and his bride, Tessie Sinahon,
* A cure for tennis elbow.
decided to get married in what was reportedly a traditional Jewish ceremony
* A portable, $4.95 machine to
July 12 after being wedded in a civil ceremony a month earlier.
smoke your own salmon at home.
* An answering machine that pre-
"It just didn't sit right with me."
vents people who call from hanging
—Bobbye Goldstein, an Orthodox editor of children's poetry collections, on
up until they leave their name and
receiving permission from a literary agent representing the Late poet Eve Mer-
phone number.
riam to change the word "ham" to "lamb" in one of Ms. Merriams works.
* A new calendar with no Monday.

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