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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Schweitzer. Here is the transcendence of nationalism, ambition, and worldly power in the service of those who need him, with an influence greater than that of statesmen and educators and soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Like the baptism, the choice of the prince's name was a purely family affair. Notably missing was the ubiquitous "Albert" which Victoria had insisted upon in the names of her sons and grandsons. Gone were the names of the patron saints of Ireland, Scotland and Wales borne by the last Prince of Wales, Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Christening | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...case, the baby would probably ascend the throne as George VII (the present King was known as Albert when he was a prince). Ebullient Princess Margaret pointed out the only possible drawback to the new name. "Now," she said, "I suppose they'll call me Charlie's Aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Christening | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, 63, whose death sentence for war crimes (he supervised the bombing of defenseless Warsaw and supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Comings & Goings | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Woman's Privilege. In Savannah, Mrs. Albert W. Daughtry had her husband arrested for beating her, bailed him out, two hours later had him rearrested on the same charge, bailed him out again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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