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Lecturing at Los Angeles' John Tracy ear clinic (named for Spencer Tracy's deaf son), Volf propounded a revolutionary theory: physiologists have been all wrong in teaching that the ear's semicircular canals are responsible for man's equilibrium. Equilibrium, said Volf, is an acquired trait that man has to learn by becoming "attuned to rhythmic conformity with the rotation of the earth...
Volf had observed that deaf people without semicircular canals seem to have no difficulty in balancing themselves, that many had become outstanding dancers. But his most startling "evidence" was his observation of the way certain people walk. A child, said Volf, always takes his first toddling steps toward the east. Why? Because the earth's rotation in that direction makes it easier. Suggested Volf: "Just try to call a child who has begun to walk in the easterly direction. If you are west of the child, he will stop, sit down, turn around and crawl back on all fours...
...Visitors. Outside Dana, in a farm home behind a long lawn, lives Ernie's father, William Clyde Pyle. He is 76, partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie...
...Knowing People. The Germans knew what was ahead. A man would have to be deaf, dumb & blind not to know. Except for a few blissful days of bad weather, the air bombardment went on without letup. Deliberate, impersonal BBC announcers even gave statistics: two tons of Allied demolition bombs were smashing at Europe every minute of the day & night...
Owing to war time emergencies, the physician is the only M.D. in town and though 70 years old, blind, half deaf and ignorant of all medical knowledge of the last half century, he manages to deliver all the babies successfully. Typical of his brand of medicine is his reply to an anxious patient who calls him up and asks. "Junior just throw up, doctor. What should I do?" "Clean it up," snaps the tottering doctor as he pursues his work...