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Died. Homer William Smith, 67, lanky, leading U.S. physiologist who was first to trace the evolution of the kidney, for 34 years taught New York University medical students to reflect on the arts as well as the sciences, and as a passionate agnostic sought to prove in his books Kamongo and Man and His Gods that organized religion is a figment of man's fearful myths; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Fat American," a look at the causes and cures of overweight. Among experts interviewed: Dr. Paul Dudley White and Ancel Keys, physiologist and co-inventor of wartime K ration...
After three days of mixing thinking and drinking, Physiologist Greenberg summed up the symposium consensus: "Alcohol is the safest, most available tranquilizer we have...
...others: Ethnographer Antonio de Almeida, 61, Portugal (Roman Catholic); Chemist George de Hevesy, 75, born in Hungary, now living in Sweden (Roman Catholic); Physiologist Sir John Carew Eccles, 58, Australia (Roman Catholic); Geneticist Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 71, England (Church of England); Chemist Giordano Giacomello, 71, Italy (Roman Catholic); Victor Francis Hess, 77, Austrian-born physicist who taught (1938-51) at New York's Fordham University (Roman Catholic); Chemist Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 63, England (Church of England); Domenico Marotta, 74, director of the Superior Institute of Health, Rome (Roman Catholic). There are no Jews because, according to Academy...
...faculty includes Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei. Oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, Physiologist Ancel Keys (TIME cover, Jan. 13) and Economist Walter Heller (TIME cover, March 3). Though weak in language and music, the university is strong in medical and physical sciences. Its English Department has long imported such author-teachers as Novelist Robert Penn Warren, currently employs Poet Allen Tate. The average student IQ is only 115 even at the slightly selective (top 60% of high school graduates) liberal arts college, yet Minnesota abounds with ambition. "There's a kind of eagerness to learn here," says one English professor. "They...