Evidence: | 'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the sleek, well-nourished university students, I became so familiar to the staff that they dubbed me, in kindly fashion, "the young professor". One day, perhaps as a piece of sympathetic magic, I looked up Einstein's massive entry in "Who's Who" and copied it out word for word, his universities, degrees, honorary doctorates, publications. I kept that transcript pasted into an exercise book, a talisman'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 3 Apr 1926 and 3 Apr 1929 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Glasgow specific address: Mitchell Library reading room |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Ralph Glasser |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1916 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Jewish |
Country of origin: | England (of Lithuanian ancestry) |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Who's Who |
Genre: | Biography, Science, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ read at Mitchell Library |
Record ID: | 20298 | |
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Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Growing up in the Gorbals | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 28-9 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Growing up in the Gorbals (London, 1986), p. 28-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20298, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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