Word: schweitzer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant intellectual (Mortimer Adler) appears just ahead of a retired madam (Polly Adler); the Dalai Lama flanks Dagmar. Henry Ford II shares a page with Tennessee Ernie Ford; Dr. Albert Schweitzer mingles on page 675 with Cleveland Indian Pitcher Herb Score. What brings these unlikely companions together is the new International Celebrity Register ($26), by Society Scribe Cleveland Amory (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts...
...come to Brussels to accept a $2,000 award for his good works in Africa. In recent years it has become a pyramiding proposition: the more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred...
...Aufbau to its subscribers in 49 states and 83 foreign countries, George works 14 hours a day seven days a week in a shabby office cluttered with pictures of such old friends as Marlene Dietrich (he wrote her first biography), Albert Schweitzer, and Thomas Mann. Most of Aufbau's feature articles come from outside contributors and George does the drama and movie reviews himself. With 60% of its space devoted to ads. Aufbau turns a handsome profit, last year gave $47,700 to needy refugees...
Nobel Peace Prizewinning Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer, 84, went to Copenhagen to accept a Sonning Prize (the Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...
Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D. Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, philanthropist, nurse, founder with her husband of Haiti's Albert Schweitzer Hospital L.H.D...