Re: [FairfieldLife] Krauts bar American Ph.D.'s From Calling Themselves Doctor

[Sal Sunshine]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:05 PM, bob_brigante wrote:

Mr. Baldwin's crime, under a Nazi-era law governing the use of
academic titles, was to assume that his doctorate from Cornell  
University entitled him to call himself "Doctor" in Germany.
The honorific, apparently, is reserved for recipients of
doctoral degrees from German universities.

I wonder what they'd think of all the phony "honorary docs" that have  
come from MUM.

Sal