Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lame & the Blind. The wounded men and their helpers began trickling down from the crest. A man with most of his shoulder shot away was guiding a blinded man. One limped along. The litter team carried a sergeant whose leg was bad and whose face was cut. Captain Wozenski had to detail some whole men to help. I took the arm of the blinded...
...There are midget Hitlers here who continually attack labor. There are other demagogues, blind to the errors of every other group, who shout, 'We love labor, but. . . .' Both the midget Hitlers and the demagogues are enemies of America...
Radio has at last made a good thing out of the American institution of the blind date (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.). Six servicemen (usually chosen from a nearby canteen) are paired off before a telephone in NBC's Manhattan studios. Each pair competes for a pretty girl at the other end of the line. Each man's vocal persuasiveness is his only weapon. Boy cannot see girl, and vice versa. She chooses one of the two, and the three winners take their girls to the Stork Club for a full evening of dining and dancing...
...Blind Date's unrehearsed dialogue is pure, offhand Americanese, unslicked by script writers. Studio audiences, who can see and hear everything, have a howling time following the young contestants. Most of the winning servicemen have viewed the girls and the whole affair as a G.I. dream come true. The girls, who are radio actresses chosen from A.F.R.A.'s enrollment, have offered no complaints. They are cautioned beforehand to be "perfect ladies," given a few stock questions to ask. The boys are provided with an opening salutation, reminded to watch what they say-parents, sisters, sweethearts may be listening...
...Hell. Showers splattered the windshields when the ship was over halfway across the China Sea. At 500 ft. the sea was completely blotted out. In the thick weather cigarets lost their taste. That night, eerie, peaked islands rose up at them out of the mist. They were flying blind and praying that they would see the islands in time. When Lawson decided to climb and fly in on instruments and then jump (it meant losing the plane), they ran into a hole in the weather, saw a clean, concave beach. Lawson dropped low, dragged the beach, inspecting it for logs...