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...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
...neighbors soon stopped worrying about young Albert Schweitzer, who began to grow up as straight and strong as an Alsatian pine. But his mother still had cause to weep-over his report cards. The first-rate education to which he was entitled as a parson's son, and the grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs...
...equity out of the chaos of French rentals, had just proclaimed that after Jan. 1 French floor space would be classified as "real," "useful" and "corrected." The law was drafted with clarity, system and thoroughness, qualities for which the French are famed. Also, the law was nuttier than an Alsatian fruit cake...
Stop the Presses. In Glasgow, Henry Strachan got mad at an Alsatian dog, made news...
...successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...