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...Admiral Hyman Rickover's secretary replied that the admiral never signed his name for anyone he did not know personally, Randall wrote right back, sending along a photograph of himself. (It didn't work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden of San Quentin saying that prisoners were not permitted to give autographs...
...fear nothing else on earth-more than ruin, more even than death." But in every age since the pyramid builders', there have been a few exceptional men who would willingly risk death for the enjoyment of thinking. Whether Socrates had as high an I.Q. as Shakespeare or Descartes, Schweitzer or Einstein, will never be known. What is certain is that all such men used their brains as energetically as they knew how. Today, man may have no greater brain capacity than the ancients, but he has revolutionary ideas about how to exploit...
...cannot become known as icon smashers." In every rival's mind is the continued reverence for der Alte displayed by the German people. In a recent EMNID public opinion poll to choose the "World's Most Admired Man," 24% of the West Germans picked Adenauer. Albert Schweitzer came second with 8%, and leaders like Charles de Gaulle. Pope John XXIII, Winston Churchill and President John F. Kennedy ranged from...
...Bach's life, they were transcriptions of six cantata movements (and one of only three sets of pieces to get into print during the composer's lifetime). All the same, they are, entrusted to the proper facile fingers and fleet feet, magnificently suited to the organ--Schweitzer notwithstanding...
GEORGE K. SCHWEITZER Professor of Chemistry The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn...