Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City was no fair place to try a Tammany man) stood with eight co-defendants before the bar of Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Sturdy little Justice Pecora, who made his own mark investigating Wall Street for the Senate in 1933, had followed the Dewey proceedings with an expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor) to call also on his redheaded actress friend Hope Dare (real...
...most spectacular operations developed in the last few years is the transplantation of fragile corneas from the eyes of dead men to the eyes of the living. When Evangelist Minister U. G. Harding of Portland, Ore. heard that such an operation might restore sight to his failing left eye, he sent a form letter to twelve condemned men in California's San Quentin prison, asking for a cornea. But not one could he get. Fortnight ago, Rev. Mr. Harding visited his 80-year-old friend, Mrs. Margaret Carr, who lay dying in Berkeley, Calif. Just before she closed...
...content to wait for television to convert radio into eye and ear entertainment, U. S. broadcasters strain the microphone by trying to make it report inaudible events at second hand. Sponsors' favorite among the second-hand reporters is Oddities Collector Robert Ripley, whose Believe It Or Not programs have missed only one broadcasting season since...
...Eye for Eye...
...Francisco, one-eyed Housepainter Charles T. Ketterman saw newspaper accounts of cornea transplantations to restore sight (see p. 20). Instead of trying to buy a cornea to repair his blind eye, he offered for sale the cornea of his one sound eye. His price: $1,500. His reason: "I have seen enough misery...