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...Died. Jane Barbe, 74, whose name was known to few but whose voice is familiar to millions who use voice mail or pick up the phone to find out the time or temperature; in Roswell, Georgia. Barbe first recorded announcements for telephone answering system pioneer Audichron Co. in 1963. By the 1980s, she was heard by an estimated 40 million people daily...
...Corrections Our story on rock-music pioneer Phil Spector and the shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson [Feb. 17] said Spector had been charged with murder. Although Spector was arrested as part of a murder investigation, he was not formally charged with any crime...
...most profound, political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised bifocal glasses and clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream and theories about the contagious nature of the common cold. He was a pioneer of do-it-yourself civic improvement, launching such schemes as a lending library, volunteer fire corps, insurance association and matching-grant fund raiser. He helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor and philosophical pragmatism. In foreign policy, he created an approach that wove together idealism with balance-of-power...
...scientific and social pioneer, Franklin was no less intrepid than the explorers. "Every generation should look anew at Franklin," says Walter Isaacson, my predecessor as managing editor of TIME and the author of a splendid new biography, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. "He speaks to us in a contemporary way, and we can learn a lot about our own values by the way we see them reflected in Franklin." In an adaptation from his book, Walter explores Franklin's seven revolutionary ideals in a way that offers remarkable resonance with today's headlines...
Southern’s tenure at Harvard was often marred by conflict, which she wrote about in an essay, “A Pioneer: Black and Female,” published in the 1993 anthology Blacks at Harvard. Southern wrote of her efforts to garner respect both for herself and for the young department...