Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), Rosenberg was expelled from high school in 1940 because he was a Jew. He had already lost contact with his family, so he decided to flee alone to France — by bicycle and foot to Paris. But that city fell to Germany, so he went to Toulouse. In a … Read more
From This is True for 31 October 2021
Born in Pinner, Middlesex — now a London suburb — Bricusse acted while in college, but excelled in music. He put the two together, and wrote songs, scores, and/or lyrics for musical plays and films, often with partner Anthony Newley, starting with 1961’s Stop the World — I Want to Get Off, which was then made … Read more
From This is True for 24 October 2021
Growing up in Libertyville, Ill., Saxelby developed a strong interest in …cheese. Her father said he didn’t know how, since their “classic Midwest” cheese connoisseur level was “Kraft Singles”, but she wrote a thesis — for high school — on the chemical processes behind cheesemaking. Still, when she went to New York University, she studied … Read more
From This is True for 17 October 2021
“There is no more complex piece of matter in the universe than the human brain, and so the complexity is a huge challenge,” Mishkin said in 2011. And he should know: he studied how the brain worked for more than 60 years. A neuropsychologist, Dr. Mishkin was Chief of the National Institute of Mental Health’s … Read more
From This is True for 10 October 2021
Born in Japan, Saito is considered a manga comic book artist, though he preferred the term gekiga (“dramatic pictures”), a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult, not juvenile, audiences, with a cinematic art style and more mature themes. He moved to Tokyo to pursue his art, and in 1960 founded Saito Production to produce it, which branched out … Read more
From This is True for 3 October 2021