Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomat from Texas Sir: In your Sept. 26 issue you mention "State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson." This name, among our diplomatic representatives, has never caught my eye before. Thirty years ago I "lost" a schoolmate at University of Texas who said he was going into diplomacy. His name was Jack (John D.) Hickerson . . . We worked our way through school delivering newspapers and owning a shoeshine parlor . . . Is he our old friend...
There was only one hitch. Peter had been born blind in one eye. This handicap had kept him from going to a university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following his famed father's profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last...
...extra-curricular entertainment on the weekend, Nassau men run into a blind alley, figuratively speaking. They aren't allowed to have cars, and they can't have women in their rooms after 7 p.m. Even the clubs keep an eye on darkened-room proceedings, for fear of being squelched by the University. Club men are never allowed in the women's quarters and not even in the building after...
...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
Before long, the benefit of his shrewd, appraising eye was being respectfully sought by such merchandising bigwigs as John Wanamaker and Horace Saks...