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After visiting her old friend and teacher Jean Sibelius in Finland, bright-eyed Antonio Brico, 48, Denver conductor, flew on to French Equatorial Africa to see another old musical friend, Organist-Physician Albert Schweitzer, who had cabled: "You've always wanted to see my hospital. Get yourself a yellow-fever shot and a sun helmet and come...
...greatest person produced by the 20th Century so far: Gandhi, both before & after. Runners-up: Albert Schweitzer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...
...There are [several] men who will outlive the memory of Churchill. On this list, to name only a few, will be Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. These men not only "launched lifeboats" but became part of the crew...
...Churchill was the clear choice of TIME readers who sent in Man of the Half-Century nominations; runner-up was Roosevelt, with Gandhi at his heels; then Einstein and Schweitzer...