Word: colorblindness
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...during that part of his tour. The South can take all-Negro bands like Cab Galloway's, and it doesn't mind small mixed combinations; against a Negro in a large white band it tends to draw the color line. But Artie Shaw, like most musicians, is colorblind...
Died. Arthur Heming, 70, artist who specialized in Canada's northern forests; at Hamilton, Ont. Until he was 60 he sketched in black, white, yellow. Then, discovering he was no longer colorblind, he splurged in brightest hues...
...true, says Author Andrews, that bulls get mad when they see red-all mammals except monkeys and men are colorblind. Many animals can be taught to detect slight differences of shade, but when variously colored disks emitting the same intensity of light are presented, the animals are baffled. Thus a dog sees the world, including his master, in various shades of grey, as in a photograph. But birds, fish and insects can distinguish colors...
...able to spot only ten of 40 camouflaged artillery fieldpieces on the ground. An observer of the Field Artillery in a plane spotted all 40 and accurately plotted their positions on his map. The explanation: the artilleryman, selected under less rigorous examination than the Air Corps man, was colorblind. Camouflage, designed to deceive the normal eye, fooled him not a whit...
Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...