Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist-mimic, with Songstress Jo Stafford as guest star...
Stockholders sat down last week to look over the earnings reports for the first half of 1946. Like the blind men of Indostan who went to see the elephant what they "saw" depended on what part of the animal they examined...
...Reading Hospital, T.W.A. Captain Richard Brown, the plane's sole survivor, said that smoke swirling up through the baggage hatch was so intense that it was impossible to see the pilot across the flight deck, that he had as a last resort attempted to land blind...
Such antics were dismissed this week by the editor of the American, Journal of Public Health, Professor C.E.A. Winslow of Yale, as no more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind musical satirist with tiptoe-singer Evelyn Knight as his guest...