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Still they come, all year round, to see the famed old man in his storied jungle setting. Public figures like Adlai Stevenson, starry-eyed U.S. Peace Corpsmen, spinster schoolteachers realizing a longstanding dream-all come for a visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At his mission three miles upstream from the Gabonese village of Lambaréné, "the great white doctor," now 88, affably greets them, autographing his books in a fine, steady hand. Yet, after devoting nearly two-thirds of his life ministering to the sick of equatorial Africa and being widely regarded as a near saint, Schweitzer...
Died. Edith Hamilton, 95, unsurpassed woman classicist, a tall, spare spinster whose love and knowledge of ancient worlds smoldered for 50 years until, at 62, she wrote her masterpiece, The Greek Way, a lucid, highly readable study of the Golden Age, then went onto examine Greece's mythology, its philosophies, and its echoes in other civilizations, and regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul awarded her the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction, the nation's highest honor; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Then came Mrs. Millicent Mclntosh, the all-purpose career woman with five children who proclaimed, "The era of women's rights has merged with the era of women's opportunities." This week Barnard (enrollment: 1,500) inaugurated a new pacesetter, President Rosemary Park, a tiny, witty, lucid spinster with a steely mind and a compromise ticket...
...lady died in Pittsburgh not long ago. She was a spinster who wore sensible shoes and no-nonsense hair styles, and she had labored more than 30 years in the musty routine of a bank. The life of Miss Ida Capers, 72, was a lonely one-except for her dogs. All her life she had had at least two. When she suffered a heart attack in her house last January, her only companions were a pair of Irish setters named Brickland and Sunny Burch...
...many Germans, Ash Wednesday holds an extra measure of solemnity. It marks the end of the gay Fasching season, about the only time of the year when a middle-aged widower or a plain, bespectacled spinster can break out of the everyday litany of loneliness and-who knows? -find true love across a crowded beer hall. Of those who were still lonely as Fasching ended last week, many would not wait for next year's festivities; they will turn instead to one of West Germany's 200 marriage agencies, such as the booming "Institute for Elegant Individual Marriage...