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...ALBERT SCHWEITZER...
...present the personalities of religion on the basis that the news cannot be understood without knowing the people who make it. This includes both the leading figures and the lesser lights whose works and words are worth recording. These stories may deal with lonely, isolated missionaries (e.g., Albert Schweitzer, TIME, July n, 1949) with prelates such as Pittsburgh's Episcopal Bishop Austin Pardue, who trains prospective ministers for his diocese by having them work in steel mills and coal mines (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), or they may be stories on such figures as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Rabbi...
...Solid and sure, and cheerful as a cherub, 58-year-old Nurse Haussknecht is on a three-month tour of U.S. cities, showing and explaining a series of colored slides of the Lambaréné mission, shaking hands and smiling and answering questions. She tells how old Dr. Schweitzer still makes the last rounds of all the patients in the hospital every night, because two years ago one of them, in reply to his morning greeting, said that he had not slept at all the night before, "waiting for you to say good night...
This year Albert Schweitzer was too busy with a new leprosarium to visit the U.S. to report on the work in Africa to the thousands of Americans who have been providing the mission with money, drugs and materials. So he sent Emma Haussknecht...
...tells of the patient from whose eye Dr. Schweitzer had just removed a cataract. "What do you see?" Schweitzer asked the man, "what do you see?" But the patient shouted to the interpreter: "Why does he ask me what I see? He made the operation. He should know!" And she tells of Dr. Schweitzer's menagerie of pet animals, and how he always keeps a rug thrown over the organ-style pedals of his piano so that his baby antelopes will not break their legs...