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Died. Louis Skidmore, 65, co-founder (with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Owings) of the U.S.'s most uncompromisingly modern architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M...
...muscles at the top of the gullet can be made to vibrate. As a result they give a lower tone. In the 1930's, a few laryngectomees discovered that they could produce speech of a sort by swallowing air and controlling their burps. Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin, now practicing in Miami, systematized the method (TIME, Dec. 4, 1939), and many improvements have been made since...
...Harvard sophomores are among 106 students admitted to the 1962-63 junior year in France, the foreign student program administered by Sweet Briar College since 1948. The six are: Robert D. Lamberton, Joseph R. Scott Jr., Nathaniel B. Smith, Miner H. Warner, James D. Wilkinson, and C. Loring Woodman...
...stood on a projecting boulder and sang an aria to the plunging cataract. Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster, a young Northerner hopelessly in love with the South, was forever grateful to her because she added his songs to her repertoire, including one she called "Mein Old Kentucky Home." Nathaniel Hawthorne thought she was dull, but few agreed with...
...physical training program at Harvard will not undergo any substantial changes in the foreseeable future, Dean von Stade and Nathaniel A. Parker, director of Physical Training, said yesterday...