Young Immigrants

Henry Kissinger's nomination as Secretary of State serves as a reminder that, after the Albert Einsteins and the Arturo Toscaninis, already-distinguished refugees from the European fascism of the 1930s, a whole new generation of immigrants have made contributions to the U.S. Among them:

Mike Nichols, 41, movie director,

came from Germany in 1939.

Claes Oldenburg, 44, artist, from

Sweden in 1938.

I.M. Pei, 56, architect, from China

in 1935.

Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 46, awaiting

confirmation as Under Secretary of the

Treasury, from Germany in 1944.

Charles Bluhdorn, 46, chairman,

Gulf & Western, from Austria in 1942.

Lukas Foss, 51, composer-conductor,

from Germany in 1935.

Otto Eckstein, 46, economist, from

Germany in 1939.

Rudi Gernreich, 51, women's wear

designer, from Austria in 1938.

Jose Quintero, 48, theater director,

from Panama in 1941.

Max Frankel, 43, journalist, from

Germany in 1940.

Roddy McDowall, 44, actor, from

England in 1940.

H. Gobind Khorana, 51, a 1968 Nobel

prizewinner in medicine, from India

in 1960.

Tsung-Dao Lee, 46, and

Chen Ning Yang, 51, who

shared a 1957 Nobel Prize in

physics, from China in 1946 and 1945, respectively.

John Simon, 48, film and

theater critic, from Yugoslavia in 1940.

Wilfrid Sheed, 42, writer

and editor, from England in

1947.

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