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...bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with...
Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
...Puerto Rico, they came: 41 of them, with skippers ranging from dainty, 14-year-old Sally Wilcox (who had her father as crew) to salty, 59-year-old Edward Merrill, last year's champion. After three days of racing, over a six-mile course, 22-year-old Robert Levin of Beverly, N. J. hoisted the championship pennant-scoring 109½ points with his Bad News. Runner-up, only 5½ points behind, was spunky Sally Wilcox and her Scud-a better skipper by three points than oldtimer Merrill and J. Ramsey Speer Jr., chairman of the Regatta Committee...
...members who were just taken into the Clubs are: Dana W. Atchley, Jr. '39. Chester C. d'Autrement '41, Lester D. Berger, Jr. '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Joseph T. Knowles '42, Irving M. Shepard '39, Michael Levin '42, S. Vaughan ocC., Francis W. Scofield '40, Llewellyn Vorley '41, Richard D. Whittemore '41, William M. Wood, 3rd '42, and John H. Wulsin...
Michael I. Levin '42, has been appointed to the Freshman Smoker Committee, George A. Kuhn, chairman, announced yesterday...