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Einstein pal 'knew human side'Saturday, March 26, 2005 Gillett Griffin's birthday gift to Albert Einstein when he turned 75 in March 1954 - a Bach cantata recording - almost cost him his brief friendship with Einstein.
Griffin dropped off the record for Einstein at the master physicist's Mercer Street house, where he estimates he had dinner about a dozen times in the one or two years the two men knew each other.
"The next time I saw him, he was, for the first time, sort of cool and distant," Griffin recalled earlier this month in an interview from his Princeton Township house.
"I mustered up the courage and said, `Well, did you like the Bach cantata?' " Griffin said. "And he said, `Why did you give it to me?' "
Einstein, who was Jewish, had, for some reason, misunderstood the gift as an attempt to convert him to Christianity, Griffin said.
"Once he realized that I was not trying to Christianize him, it was amusing," said Griffin, a retired curator of the Princeton University Art Museum.
Full story from NJ.com. posted by Einstein A to Z
