Milestones, Nov. 12, 1951

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Died. Martha Bernays Freud, 90, widow of the great Viennese psychiatrist; in London. Daughter of a Hamburg merchant, "Frau Professor" was an efficient, workaday wife, provided an orderly household, bore six children (including Psychoanalyst Anna Freud), subordinated her whole life to the professor, who admitted she was not "at ease" with him, or with his work, which she never entirely understood. In World War I, she traded her needlework for Trabuccos, the scarce cigars which Freud consumed at the rate of 20 a day. In 1938, to escape Nazi antiSemitism, the family left Vienna for London, where, the following year, Freud died of cancer.

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