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Some of the hopeful new findings were reported last week in a book called Hearing and Deafness: A Guide for Laymen (Murray Hill Books; $5). The authors are a group of topflight experts headed by Dr. Hallowell Davis, longtime Harvard physiologist, now research professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis'...
Beaten down by loneliness, the hard-of-hearing tend to be irritable and depressed about their trouble. Davis & Co. think that there is no reason to be so gloomy; modern medicine has minimized the handicap of poor hearing.
The Terrible Racket. The human ear, Dr. Davis observes, is a miraculous instrument. It is normally so finely tuned that it
"The wonder," says Davis, "is not that our ears sometimes fail us, but rather that they stand the racket as well as they do." At 120 decibels (the noise of a nearby plane engine), the ear begins to feel uncomfortable; at 130 decibels, it tickles; at 140 decibels (near a...
¶ Army beat Navy for the fourth year in a row. This year's less-than-great Army team held Navy scoreless (21-0), which the Blanchard & Davis teams of other years were never able to do. Hero of the day: Rip Rowan, who ran 92 yards for one...