Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Siege Operations. Committee Chairman Vinson presided benevolently over the amphitheater formed by the double bank of committee tables, peering at witnesses over his spectacles. "Come on up here," he told "Bull" Halsey, who is growing a little deaf and had trouble hearing the questions. Stubby, emphatic Bull Halsey drew cheers from his Navy audience when he attacked the long-range bomber, declaring roundly: "I do not favor the concept that the principal weapon in our national arsenal should be a weapon designed to conduct siege operations...
...complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the new laws as much as any one else...
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy...
...Kiss in the Dark (Warner) is a daffy romantic comedy apparently intended to prove that 1948 Oscar-winning Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) is not really a deaf-mute. It is the romance of Jane, a photographer's model, and David Niven, a wealthy pianist, who owns the Manhattan apartment house where she lives...
...best of it. Its Treasure of the Sierra Madre brought three awards to one family: two to John Huston, for his direction and screen play, and one to his father, Walter Huston, for the best male supporting performance, as Treasure's garrulous old roustabout prospector. Jane Wyman, the deaf-mute of Warner's Johnny Belinda, was named the year's best actress. Claire Trevor got an Oscar for the best supporting performance by an actress, in the Huston-directed Key Largo. Bustling Warner Producer Jerry Wald got the Irving Thalberg Award for "top achievement in production...