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Relative Quiet. The man who started the noisy affair is 46-year-old Town Clerk Johan ("I'm the worst municipal employee in Holland") Scholtes. Inspired by local band contests, Scholtes decided in 1948 to organize bandsmen on an international scale. He sat down with an atlas, and over the next three years fired off letters all over the world announcing the first international music concours. Seventy-five bands showed up for the 1951 competition. When the second contest rolled around four years later, the municipality asked everyone in town to paint his house front and set out flowers...
...fact, it's probably better if they're not. "Dr. Schwitzgebel says. "What is most important is to listen to the boy as a human being, not to preach to him. In the past year at Streetcorner Research, our volunteer experimenters have included, besides graduate students, a bank clerk, a medical doctor, a minister, a plumber, and a housewife. These volunteers are fascinated by the research and have proved successful...
...puller is Pierre Perrin, 32, a onetime government clerk whose marriage to Brigitte Bardot's movie stand-in broke up in 1958. Despondent, Perrin tried suicide (poison and gas). On recovering, he took his psychiatrist's advice to drive a cab in Paris for the therapeutic value. Annoyed by gabby passengers, Perrin responded to their chatter with the same contemptuous wisecrack: "Mais tout (a ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge" (But all that is not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge)-a retort all the more effective in that Perrin had never set eyes on Maubeuge...
...people at the New Mexico meeting were some who came all the way from ranches in Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian...
...wonder boys" thrown up by Germany's postwar economic miracle, none rose faster or higher than jowly Willy Schlieker (rhymes with bleaker), 48. Born in the slums of Hamburg, Schlieker started out as a clerk in a law court, at 28 was chief of wartime steel allocation for the Nazi government. After the war, capitalizing on his Ruhr contacts, Schlieker built up a steelmaking, shipbuilding and trading empire that last year grossed $200 million. Last week, two months after he had been featured on TV as one of Germany's richest men, the bottom fell out for Willy...