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...small ceremony at his home in Günsbach, France, 77-year-old Albert Schweitzer, physician, musician, philosopher and missionary, was presented with the first Paracelsus Medal (in honor of Philippus Paracelsus, 16th century alchemist and physician whose real name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) awarded by the German Physicians' Congress for "outstanding services...
...Schweitzer v. Orthodoxy...
...barrenness of it has been demonstrated [TIME, July 21]." Demonstrated by whom, when, where? Dr. Macartney's statement is one that sounds good if you say it quickly, but won't stand examination. To consider only one example, let's look at Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the missionary in the Belgian Congo. While Pastor Macartney has been preaching to congregations of educated, cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways of polite society, ignorant, poor, and unable to repay him except in the coin of gratitude...
Among the 100 who have been cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...many sincere men regard him as a mischievous crank, a self-advertising fanatic and an easy tool for Communists. Many other men regard him as their only effective friend in politics, as a man who intends to do good as well as be good. With David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer, he is one of the few who have penetrated the barrier of suspicion that exists between the races in Africa, and found friendship and absolute confidence on the other side. (Tribesmen call him the "Hearer," the one who listens and gathers evidence on their behalf...