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...jobs in the U.S. for the crippled and disabled. More and more of them are finding a place. In the Kaiser shipyards, for example, a paralyzed arm is no hindrance to I. L. Matthews, who walks under a crane to warn other workers to get out of the way. Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either. Of some 5,000,000 U.S. cripples, it is estimated that 75% are employable-and of some 600,000 epileptics...
...Ford had long made it a practice to hire the handicapped in proportion to their presence in the plants' communities. The late Edsel Ford wrote in the Saturday Evening Post last winter that 10% of the company's employes in Detroit are handicapped-4,390 blind or deaf, 7,262 otherwise disabled...
...skippers, test pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
There are Pete Johnson and Al Ammons, two of the original boogie boys. If you're tired of hearing the tone-deaf boogie players who haunt the Common Rooms, you might enjoy hearing the stuff played the way it should be played...
Jubilee Coming. Almost blind, rather deaf, lanky, square-jawed Cardinal Hinsley was never well since he had a bout with paratyphoid in Africa a decade ago. Yet, despite recurring heart attacks, the prelate's seven years at Westminster were enormously active. When the late Pope Pius XI appointed Hinsley Archbishop in 1935 he was practically unknown in England. Son of a Yorkshire carpenter and an Irish mother, he had spent several quiet decades as a schoolmaster and rector of a London parish and Rome's English College. In 1926 he was consecrated a Bishop and sent to Africa...