Thanks for this amazing post, @sound1 !
Einstein has been one of my heroes since forever, yet I’ve never come across this piece before. What a mind, what a story!
I came across it while reading hacker news, I really liked it and thought of sharing here. BTW, the author is also a very well know writer. From his bio at the end:
"Jerome Weidman was a novelist, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright who died in 1998. He wrote the book for the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, which marked Barbra Streisand’s first Broadway appearance. “The Night I Met Einstein” first appeared in Reader’s Digest in November 1955 and is one of the most requested pieces from our archives."