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...eventually volunteered to serve the leper colony on Molokai, became a beloved, if eccentric figure there; he wore a flowered native dress under his cape, tied up the brim of his battered clerical hat with string. At the age of 49, he died of leprosy, or Hansen's disease...
...Folland '68 of Leverett House and Salt Lake City, Utah, mathematics; Jonathan R. Grandine '68 of Eliot House and Wellesley Hills, English; Geoffrey M. Greenfield '68 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills Cal., biochemistry, David R. Haynor '68 of Lowell House and EI Cerito, Cal., mathematics; Peter Ravn-Hansen '68 of Adams House and Hillsdale, N.J., social studies; Kenneth W. Wachter '68 of Quincy House and Westfield, N.J., history and literature; Charles A. Weber '68 of Dudley House and Bethesda, Md., Far Eastern languages; and Stephen J. willson '68 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Cal., mathematics...
Actually, his lot was not terribly tormented. Lifelong friends looked after him, and local merchants accepted paintings in exchange for food. Recalls Andreas Hansen, then (as now) mayor of tiny Neukirchen and the ranking local Nazi: "Every week my wife and I visited the Noldes and we chatted. This was my inspection. I knew that he painted, but I kept my eyes closed...
When Brooke arrived on Capitol Hill, his credentials were not essentially different from those of the other members of a promising G.O.P. Senate freshman class?Illinois' Charles Percy, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Tennessee's Howard Baker and Wyoming's Clifford Hansen. "There was no special fanfare for me," mused Brooke after taking the senatorial oath on Jan. 10. "I felt like a member of the club. They didn't overdo it. They didn't underdo it." He and the other Republican tyros have seats in the same section of the Senate chamber?an area that is called "Boy's Town...
Less than Bashful. "I'm cautious by nature," Brooke explains. He has spent long hours on the Senate floor since his arrival, on occasion sitting as the only spectator while some colleague spun a solo speech. Unlike his freshmen classmates Percy and Hansen, he has not yet introduced any legislation. Nor does he expect to assault Senate tradition by making a floor speech soon. "I won't establish a record for speaking early," he says, "but I will not be bound by custom either. If I feel I must speak out, I will have no hesitation...