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...Crowley, 58, a staffer for 31 years and, like both Reese and Bovard, a longtime city editor. Over the P-D's 1,650-man staff is the paper's, unchallenged boss, Joseph Pulitzer II, 68, who, like his late father, has long suffered from failing eyesight; he keeps a battery of secretaries reading the paper to him line-by-line every day (including ads). Whether in his office, at his estate in Bar Harbor, Me., or aboard his yacht Victoria, "J.P." deluges his staff with distinctive yellow-paper memos, has even edited his own obituary...
...year later he went to Washington to become secretary of the joint Army-Navy committee on Information and Education. Bad eyesight kept him a civilian until 1944, when he gave up the $8,000 job to step right back into the same position as a $50 a month private. A party held in honor of his induction was attended by generals and admirals...
Political opposition is still a risky business, subject to the eagle eyesight of Dr. Salazar's efficient security police. But there has been increasing lenience with dissenters, and several opposition groups-the Monarchists, Socialists, Communists-are known to be operating underground. Political trials are now public. The dictator's new leniency in elections may be, as skeptics see, a mere transient gesture. But it could also be that the ex-professor now recalls, in his quiet old age, what he once said years ago: "Dictatorship is essentially a formula of transition ... It should not seek permanence...
...time. Among 944 Americans on the list: Air Force Captain James A. Van Fleet Jr., West Pointer son of the former Eighth Army commander; Jet Ace Captain Harold E. Fischer, who bagged most of his ten enemy planes by disdaining the prized radar gunsight, relying instead on naked eyesight and "Kentucky windage...
...home town of Birmingham. Ala., Charles Boswell, who lost his eyesight from a direct hit in World War II, won the annual blind golfers' tournament for the sixth time in a row (with a caddy lining up clubs for him and telling him the distance to the cup). His score for 36 holes...