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...Bureau and former senior partner of the top-ranking accounting firm of Price Waterhouse & Co. Brundage (Harvard, '14) is a Republican, father of two, and lives in Montclair, N.J. When his mind wanders from his ledgers, it wanders great distances: he is president of the Friends of Albert Schweitzer College Inc., and keeps a bust of the 81-year-old philosopher-missionary on his Budget Bureau desk...
Harlow Curtice-what an astounding selection ! Just offhand, I can name a hundred likelier choices, among them Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Dulles, the Pope, Schweitzer and Sibelius. I regard your choice as a cowardly surrender to your business office, and I will never read your magazine again...
About to turn 81, French Equatorial Africa's revered Nobel Prizewinning medical missionary, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, tersely answered a newsman's questionnaire that sought Schweitzer's birthday opinions. Wrote he: "Silence should fall around me. I must not always talk about myself to the world. Let me be simple and modest ... I would not be true to myself should I address myself again and again to the world...
Quietly boarding a train's third-class carriage in his old Alsatian home town of Gunsbach, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 80, some four decades after renouncing already notable careers in music and philosophy to become a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa, rolled off to London. Forgoing fancy hotels in favor of staying with a longtime Alsatian friend who runs a teashop, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Schweitzer one day drew on a shabby, dark overcoat, headed for Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth II invested him with the insigne of the exclusive (24 members) Order of Merit. As a non-Briton...
...played football in the central squares of French towns, heard Schweitzer play cathedral organs, learned how to drink innumerable toasts of champagne at official receptions; but more than anything else, they showed European audiences that Americans can sing. As the newspaper Petit Parisien commented after the Club's first concert: "One can say that the students of Harvard posses the true art of singing in the profoundest degree...