Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known news photographer in New York City is Izzy Kaplan, at present employed by the Daily Mirror. Photographer Kaplan has snapped practically every celebrity to enter Manhattan in the past ten years, has hidden in choir stalls to "get" socialite weddings, fed a hot dog to the late great Albert of Belgium, insulted Cardinals and bossed prize fighters. He seldom shaves and has difficulty in keeping his shirt tails inside his trousers...
...question was asked by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the world's ablest theologians. The answer was given by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the most famed medical missionaries in the West African jungle. The occasion was Dr. Schweitzer's appearance in England last October to deliver the Hibbert Lectures, given annually by men of renown at Manchester College, Oxford and University College, London. To report Dr. Schweitzer's words The Christian Century had a stenographer on hand. Last week and the week before that alert U. S. interdenominational weekly summarized the Hibbert Lectures, which will later be published...
...penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...
...Born in Alsace 59 years ago, Albert Schweitzer studied music under a church organist, was later taught by the great French Organist Charles Marie Widor. Concurrently he studied theology, took degrees at the University of Strasbourg. A Protestant curate at 25, he became organist at 28 to the Societe J. S. Bach of Paris, later played tor the Orfeo Catala in Barcelona. Rapidly becoming an expert on the eschatological elements in Christ's thought, Dr. Schweitzer published in 1906 his epochal work The Quest of the Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters...
...Today Albert Schweitzer is big, husky, with a mop of black hair and a vast walrus mustache. Hearty and good-natured, he lives simply, drinks only wine and smokes not at all, travels always in the cheapest class. The income from his books,* his lectures and his infrequent organ recitals in Europe goes to support his village of corrugated iron buildings on the banks of the Ogowe. There "Oganga" expects to die. He explains: "Through the spirit of Jesus I became conscious that a man can be called to a place without knowing exactly just why. For years I have...