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...oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green had known for months that the chairmanship of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee was too much for him. Last December Green underwent surgery for cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion...
...COLLEGE GIRL. Resident of Boston, available Friday or Sat. eves., to chatter inconsequentially to semi-invalid man with poor eyesight...
...strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley was too dedicated a man to let his own death interfere with his life...
Gold Thread. When his mother finally takes the boy to a Copenhagen specialist it is too late to do more than prolong his eyesight for a few years, but back home in the town concert hall it is still early enough for the boy to find an exciting new sense of vocation. A violin note spins out over the hushed audience, "thin and glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense...
While photographers and newsmen crowded his swank Faubourg St.-Germain apartment, Cuevas briskly flourished an épée in front of a gilt mirror-or as briskly as his rheumatism, poor eyesight and recently broken leg would permit. Lifar, in turn, exhibited his thrusts and parries to newsmen at a local fencing school, where he was practicing. At a chance meeting in a TV studio, brutal words were exchanged. Cried Lifar: "I feel sorry for you; you can hardly see. But I'll make you dance a minuet to my épée." Replied Cuevas: "Your handkerchief...