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The Human Animal, by Phil Donahue (Simon & Schuster, 412 pp., $19.95)

A TV-talk-show host has written a book that contains many anecdotes. One concerns a group of schoolboys who were climbing in the Swiss Alps in 1895 when, suddenly, one of the boys slipped and nearly fell over an eight-thousand-foot cliff, except that another boy reached his climbing stick to him, saving his life. The TV-talk-show host says we owe the rescuer a debt of gratitude: “The 16-year-old boy he saved from certain death that day was Albert Einstein.”

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The Human Animal, by Phil Donahue (Simon & Schuster, 412 pp., $19.95)

A TV-talk-show host has written a book that contains many anecdotes. One concerns a group of schoolboys who were climbing in the Swiss Alps in 1895 when, suddenly, one of the boys slipped and nearly fell over an eight-thousand-foot cliff, except that another boy reached his climbing stick to him, saving his life. The TV-talk-show host says we owe the rescuer a debt of gratitude: “The 16-year-old boy he saved from certain death that day was Albert Einstein.”