The New Yorker, December 7, 1935 P. 28
Long talk story about Bernard Zufall, the great amateur mnemonist; he has half a million facts stored away in his memory. He uses about 15 minutes of his spare time each evening and studies the World Almanac and the Encyclopedia Britannica. He knows on what day of the week any date from 1752 to 2,000 falls; the population of every city in America with a population of over 5,000, For the last 12 years he has memorized each issue of the Saturday Evening Post. He thinks he is carrying his hobby too far.
