In all honesty, I can lay no claims to having been a star student. That role was reserved for my younger brother Albert, recognized by all around him as a prodigious talent well before he went on to become a renowned mathematical logician and defense intellectual. At seventeen, while a student at City College, he wrote an article for an egghead magazine called Philosophy of Science. The piece, entitled "The Structure of the Proposition and the Fact," immediately attracted interest from intelligentsia in all parts of the globe.
One of the epistles which found its way to our door was from a professor at Princeton University, a certain Albert Einstein. The world-famous scientist considered the article to be the most lucid extrapolation of mathematical logic he had ever read. He invited my brother to Princeton to take tea and discuss the paper. When my brother arrived at the great man's home, Frau Einstein arrived at the door, knitting in hand, and (no doubt expecting an elderly academic) asked after my brother's business. "I am Albert Wohlstetter. I have an appointment with the professor." The good lady called out over the sound of her husband's violin playing, "Albert! Another Albert to see you!"
(Reprinted from pages 13 and 14 " The Right Place The Right Time
by Charles Wohlstetter)
My First Cousins once removed, Albert and Charlie Wohlstetter