Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relegated (and reconciled, perforce) to a desk job in Washington, B.C., because of substandard eyesight, he found expression in this brainchild which he designed on V-J day holiday morning as a shoulder patch for himself and fellow officers to wear, he says, in American Legion parades...
...read to them. They queue up and read it a page at a time as it comes off the V-Mail printing machines! page" to that size the type would be only a third as big as this-so small that even a Navy man with 20/20 eyesight would have trouble reading it. Consequently we have to cut up proofs of all our columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together again in two-column pages instead of three. Each page of the V-Mail Edition contains about half as many words as a regular TIME page...
...mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in 1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor...
...Author. Since settling (1938) in California, where climate and treatment have helped his ailing eyesight, Aldous Huxley has collaborated on two cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...
...notion that older workers are too slow and inflexible McFarland dismisses as largely prejudice. What they lose in strength and quickness of reflexes they more than make up in greater endurance and skill. Biologists have found that by 50 most men have slipped a little in hearing and eyesight, but individuals vary greatly: one study showed that in a group in their 50s, a quarter had keener vision than the average...