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...Munich, busily giving her Sunbeam sedan a last-minute going-over to get it ready for the grinding, 2,000-mile Monte Carlo Rally.* With her were 43 other teams from six countries, driving cars from 17 different factories. Fanned out across Europe-in Glasgow, Monte Carlo, Lisbon, Athens, Oslo, Palermo, Stockholm-nearly 300 other teams waited for the starter's flag...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...
...Oslo to accept his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 79, saintly medical missionary of French Equatorial Africa, stood in a shiny old black suit and eloquently pointed a way to peace for distinguished listeners, including Norway's King Haakon VII. His message: man can abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature...
Should the conversation slip around to what ship you took to Europe, remember this point: you either went first class on a palatial liner or worked across as a stripper on a grimy whaler out of Oslo. There is no such animal as an in-between ship. The last average ship to make interesting conversation was the Santa Maria...
...Oslo jeweler and an apprentice jeweler himself, Sather turned to art after he bought his young wife a paintbox for Christmas. "She never got it," he says. "I started in painting myself and found I couldn't stop." Sather went to art school and learned all he could, then embarked for Canada with his family. His reasons: "A Canadian consul in Norway told me this was a wonderful country. Besides, I hadn't been here before. If you walk on the same street too many times, you don't see anything...