The silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. “O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!” shouted the photographers. “Stand over ...
Editor’s note: This story is the first of a four-part Aspen Journalism series detailing Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s 1949 visit to Aspen to keynote the Goethe Bicentennial convocation, and examining the ...
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 ...
THE international do-good jet set, Albert Schweitzer division, landed in Aspen, Colorado, for the Memorial Day weekend. They came in search of their fallen leader’s living spirit and tried to assess ...