He fought Hitler from Palm Springs, with Einstein sometimes by his side

Special to The Desert Sun

The dapper attorney looked over from the terrace of his mountainside home, The Willows, at the gathered newspaper reporters below.

“’I leave Palm Springs as always—with regret,’ said Samuel Untermyer last week prior to his departure for New York yesterday. ‘There are few countries in the world which I have not visited; winters in Egypt and Palm Beach—Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo and Mrs. Untermyer and I cruised around Central and South America on the U.S.S. Tennessee one season—I settled in Palm Springs because to me it is the most stimulating winter climate in the world.’”