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More than any other businessmen in Europe, Alsatian businessmen know that their prosperity is hinged to European unity, give Charles de Gaulle's attempt to disrupt the Common Market no support. Says Jean Wenger-Valentin, president of the Industrial Credit Bank of Alsace and Lorraine: "We are all true Europeans here." Amid all the bustle and renewal, one ancient Alsatian industry has survived almost unchanged: sturdy farm hands still hand stuff the gullets of Strasbourg's shiny geese, which produce Europe's best pate de foie gras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Battle Line--1965 | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...already heard the mass in Paris' church of St.-Roch, where Father Martin's choir first performed it, found it "even more beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud and a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Moulinié Hoax | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...course, you didn't mean that the poor mother received transfusions of pure hemoglobin, which would have been toxic if not fatal. Mrs. Wenger probably received whole blood to build up her hemoglobin level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1946 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth of a Baby | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Last week, a month early, and still unconscious, Rhoda Wenger gave birth to a 4 lb., 2¼ oz. girl. As the premature baby grew, Rhoda Wenger waned: despite five transfusions of hemoglobin, her weight was down to 85 pounds. Said the despairing father, still hospitalized in Washington: "I don't know how long she can keep fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth of a Baby | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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