Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh's Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, a surgeon picked up a hot electric needle one day last week and went to work on Mayor David L. Lawrence's left eye. Some of the tissues inside the Mayor's eye were torn. Like a welder with a torch, the surgeon thrust his needle into the back of the eyeball, heated the damaged tissues and joined them together again. The chances were good that the drastic operation would save the Mayor's eyesight...
Mayor Lawrence's trouble was a condition known as "detached retina." A section of the retina (the eye's inner nerve coat) is torn loose from the choroid (the spongy surrounding membrane that normally supplies the retina's nourishment). The space between the retina and choroid fills up with fluid, gradually enlarging the break. As the undernourished retina deteriorates, the patient's vision blurs, eventually fails...
...avoid eye movements which might part the healing tissues, Mayor Lawrence for the next six weeks will wear goggles with pinpoint holes that will force him to look straight ahead...
...lapse did not escape the eye of William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington...
...sleep; Edward Gibbon spent his first night in Rome waiting for dawn. When at last it came, Historian Gibbon recalled later, "I trod with lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum (see cut) and View of the Forum...