Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAN: Exactly. (Moist of eye, he pats the new graduate on the head.) You can now take your pick of careers in medicine, religion, business and geopolitics-as well as wine-tasting and art criticism. And if you fail at everything, there's a job for you at Instant College. (Calling after him as the student exits.) And remember, it is better to curse one candle than to light the darkness...
...Callahan joined the eye section of the University of Alabama Hospitals soon after World War II. He also set up private practice. One of his first patients was the teen-age granddaughter of wealthy Shipbuilder Robert I. Ingalls. Dr. Callahan straightened the girl's crossed eyes, and on a hunch sent no bill. When Ingalls insisted on a settlement, Dr. Callahan told him that he would prefer some help toward starting a nonprofit hospital for eye patients. "How much?" asked Ingalls suspiciously. "Mr. Ingalls," said the doctor with studied boldness, "you're not noted for being a generous...
After Ingalls stopped laughing, he picked up the phone and told his attorney to draw up incorporation papers for Eye Foundation, Inc., to which he eventually, gave $25,000. It took Dr. Callahan ten years to raise, by the same dollar-extraction technique, the rest of the $1,500,000 that he needed to get the hospital opened and operating. Along the way, he called on Lumber Millionaire Alfred S. Mitchell to ask for a donation. Mitchell was also having trouble with his eyes. An on-the-spot examination revealed cataracts, which Dr. Callahan later removed. Again, no bill. Mitchell...
Last week, as proof of patients' gratitude, Dr. Callahan had the promise of a new Mitchell Foundation gift of $600,000. Two other foundations are meeting soon to consider additional grants. One is headed by John E. Meyer, who suffered an eye wound as a fighter pilot in World War II, and periodically goes to Dr. Callahan to have long-hidden metal fragments removed...
...passenger-car and 25% of the commercial-vehicle markets, Leyland-Rover would become Britain's No. 3 automak er, after British Motor Corp. and Ford. Though the marriage seems to be one of necessity. Leyland Chairman Sir William Black says that Rover has been "a glint in our eye for a long time...