Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Clifford Joyce...
...Albert Cameron Burrage...
Take That. In New Orleans, Drawbridge Tender Albert White indulged in a few drinks, then in a long-suppressed impulse: he let a car onto the bridge, dumped it off again...
...first week of spring, Francis Albert Behymer went out to look for news, and put a thousand muddy miles behind him. At little towns like Martin, Tenn., and Benton, Ark., the wiry 76-year-old stopped his plodding Chevrolet and got out to visit with the villagers. He talked their language, quoted their Bible, knew their crops and brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home...
Mastery without Talent. Albert Schweitzer, an Alsatian, was the son and grandson of schoolteachers and Evangelical ministers. At nine he played the organ in church, later studied in Paris under the great organist Charles Marie Widor. By his teens he had developed a fascination for "mastering subjects for which I had no special talent," and frequently read the clock around...