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...more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred to his age by taking the escalator to ponder the virtues of fast footwork...
Hurrying into his fourth-floor office every morning around 8:30 after a bracing 4½-mile walk from home, burly, vigorous Bill Knowland looked just the man to take charge. But as the months passed, there was no improvement. Reserved to the point of coldness. Bill Knowland rarely mixed with his staff. Son Joe occupied himself with writing memos to copy boys (No talking to rewritemen) and drawing up rules for staffers (Don't throw cigarette butts on the floor). Overtime was cut to the bone, and staffers who quit were not replaced...
...dingy, fourth-floor Manhattan offices resemble a countinghouse out of Charles Dickens. There is no city room rush, no Teletype staccato. The 27 staffers are mostly elderly women. Yet the weekly German-language Aufbau (Reconstruction) is one of the biggest (circ. 30,129) and most influential foreign-language papers in the U.S. Edited by stocky, effervescent Dr. (of Law) Manfred George, 66, Aufbau is an outstanding example of a paper that has bucked a 50-year-long decline in the U.S. foreign-language press.* This week, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Waldorf dinner, Aufbau can and does...
Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...
Inside Out. Back in Manhattan in January 1957 with 30 crammed 3-in.-by-5-in. notebooks and a mountain of loose notes, he immediately went to work in the yellow-walled, fourth-floor office of his 80-year-old brownstone on East 62nd Street, catercorner from Eleanor Roosevelt's apartment. (Says Gunther: "Mrs. Roosevelt's lights and mine are the last on the block to go out.") After writing one 14,000-word magazine article on his trip, he dug in for the 14-month task of shrinking Russia...