Word: carlsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...
When Anne Carlsen was born in Grantsburg, Wis., she had only stubs of arms ending above the elbow, her right leg ended above the knee, and the left was malformed, ending in a clubfoot. Left motherless at four, Anne got tireless encouragement from her father, an elder sister and four brothers. On a coaster wagon she learned to take part in a modified version of baseball. At eight she was pronounced ready for school, but only after a psychologist had gone over her and solemnly pronounced her "educable." Anne raced through two grades a year...
After discouraging years of baby-sitting and of writing, which brought only rejection slips, Anne Carlsen got the break she longed for: a chance to teach at a special school for crippled children in Fargo, N. Dak. The children, she found, quickly adjusted to her multiple .handicaps, soon seemed not to notice them. Summer studies won her an M.A., and in 1949 Anne Carlsen got her Ph.D. in education from Minnesota. The next year Dr. Carlsen moved in as superintendent of the Crippled Children's School, which had moved to Jamestown...
...alone in a two-room apartment over the school. The one thing she leaves to others is cooking. In the office she usually dictates letters, though she has learned to write-far more legibly than most people with normal hands-with a special pen hooked to her stump. Dr. Carlsen attends conventions all over the country, traveling easily by plane or train if it is too far to drive. But driving she loves, in a car with special controls, like those for handicapped veterans. "It's the only thing I'm proud of," she says. And since...
...when Vice President Richard Nixon presented the trophy last week, Dr. Carlsen had no hands to receive it. Nixon held it while, with good poise on her crutches, she made an apt acceptance speech...