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Died. Othmar Hermann Ammann, 86, master bridge builder, a Swiss-born engineer who pursued a lifelong vision of graceful suspension bridges linking major U.S. arteries, designed and built New York's George Washington, Triborough and new Verrazano-Narrows bridges and played a major role in the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate and Delaware's Memorial bridges; after a brief illness...
...Died. Hermann Staudinger, 84, German chemist and 1953 Nobel prizewinner, who fathered the age of plastics with his 1922 theory that large organic molecules derive their individual properties from orderly chainlike structures, hundreds of atoms long, thus making it possible for scientists to reproduce the structures synthetically, and develop such wonders as nylon (for silk) and Orion (for wool); of a stroke; in Freiburg, Germany...
...modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
RICHARD STRAUSS LIEDER (London). While Strauss's songs unquestionably sound better when sung by a soprano, Hermann Prey does all that a young rich baritone possibly can. While he cannot claim Fischer-Dieskau's crown as a lieder singer, his open, direct approach gives this record considerable charm...
Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse: three glum Dutch uncles dominated the tone of German literature in the first half of the 20th century. The first two were world-famous figures-Hauptmann as a grim Grossvater of a social realism (The Weavers), Mann as a laboriously brilliant intellectual who wrote the era's most imposing novel of ideas (The Magic Mountain). Hesse, who died in 1962, was little known outside Central Europe, even after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...