Yep, I was a teen living in NYC at the time and it was big deal in newspapers.
Interesting story too about the escape from Germany.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov