Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles...
...says he, he closed a deal with the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet (Negro) by producing four gaudy scarves and neckties at a strategic moment. Some of his talent, like Blues Singers Bukka White and Buddy Moss, periodically land in jail, where Mr. Satherly does not care to make recordings. Popular Blind Boy Fuller, a lazy, not too bright North Carolina Negro, has been totally blind for 14 of his 32 years, totes a gun and has a good sense of direction. He says he "loves all the women in the world," and sounds that way when in his wailing, rackety voice...
...Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Okeh, which more elaborately describes this division as "Novelty Dance, Country Dance, Folk Songs and Race" offered I Don't Want No Skinny Woman and Thousand Woman Blues by Blind Boy Fuller; Down and Lost in Mind and Messed Up in Love by Big Bill; Shady Green Pastures and Walk Around by the Wright Brothers Gospel Singers; I'm Tired of Mountain Women by Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan; many & many another. On these lists, collectors of Americana might find some rewarding items...
...newly born mice, with eyes still closed and nice and pink" might refer to two sets of three blind mice: Great Britain, France and the U. S. and Germany, Italy and Russia, who in Asiatic eyes are newly born countries, blind to realities staring them in the face where Japan is concerned...
...Although few viruses have ever been seen, scientists have measured many of them, and can identify them by pattern, in much the same way as a blind man knows the shape of his furniture by groping around. Viruses are measured in several different ways. One is to strain a substance known to contain a virus (like sap from a diseased plant) through a filter with pores of submicroscopic size. The smallest virus, that of foot-and-mouth disease, is ten-millionths of a millimeter in diameter...