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Also a Five-Ton Truck. An outspoken, hardheaded Alsatian who fought as a private in the French army in World War II, Father Bureth was first assigned to Brazzaville in 1945, was back in France within a few months with heart trouble and a doctor's warning that the tropics were not for him. But St. Anne's (started as a memorial to French soldiers) needed money, and Father Bureth organized some unemployed Africans in France into a song-and-dance group. He took them on a triumphal tour of the country, and francs rolled into the church...
Born in New York of Alsatian parents, Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read...
...grand prize went to a roomful of gay blobs and squiggles done in primary colors by the artful Catalan, Joán MirÓ, who has made a career of painting like a five-year-old, only better. The grand prize for sculpture was awarded to playful and mysterious Alsatian Jean Arp and his crowd of polished bronze and marble lumps, each looking like a kernel of popcorn magnified many thousands of times...
Pillar of Strength. When she was only eight, in the Alsatian village of Colmar, the same region where Dr. Schweitzer himself grew up, Emma Haussknecht dreamed about going to Africa some...
...elderly gentleman with the erect military bearing who strides through the Athens suburb of Ekali on fine mornings is the new Premier of Greece: Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. An Alsatian dog, Fritz, trots by his side, but gone are the two carloads of soldiers who accompanied him everywhere when he was leading the fight against the Communist guerrillas three years...