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Died. Stanley Benham, 56, U.S. bobsledder who won world renown in one of the swiftest and most dangerous of winter sports; of a heart attack; in Miami. Benham represented the U.S. in international competition for 13 years, winning world championships in a four-man sled in 1949 and 1950, and silver medals for the two-and four-man events at the 1952 Olympics...
Died. Richard Neutra, 78, architect of international renown for nearly half a century; of a heart attack; in Wuppertal, Germany. Born and trained in Vienna, Neutra emigrated in 1923 to the U.S., where he studied under Frank Lloyd Wright before moving to California. Like Wright, he rejected the stern horizontals and verticals of the then popular International style, instead opted for odd angles, diagonal roofs, warm-colored woods and stones. Most of his work was done on the West Coast, which he graced with literally hundreds of schools, hospitals and private homes. As he once...
Such imagery, put to the service of moral passion, has won Grass renown outside Germany as his country's most committed writer. "Much of what is the active conscience in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls," Critic George Steiner once put it, "lies in this man's ribald keeping." Characteristically impatient with grandiose claims of any sort, Grass rejects this sort of praise out of hand. For other reasons, a great many of his fellow countrymen reject the judgment too, particularly former Nazis, the middle class and petty shopkeepers of the older generation from whom Grass himself...
Petkevich is the second Harvard student to achieve world renown for figure skating in recent years. Two years ago Scotty Allen, then a Harvard freshman, finished fourth in the world championships...
...opening night, Maggie Smith brought down the first-act curtain and the house with that speech. Beyond discipline of craft and a reverence for tradition, the English theater retains the renown of greatness because it has behind it an unseen but not an unheard god, the English language. This wonder of wonders is a verdant isle of beauty, a tiara of crystalline delight, a font of wit and wisdom, a burnished mirror of the mind. Born to a noble tongue, Maggie Smith serves it nobly...