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...Failing eyesight and mental depression broke his health. The Crown, anxious to honor him, offered him an earldom last May, but Scot MacDonald turned it down lest it crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor...
Eyeless with eyesight only, the modern...
...Negro officer of the U. S. Navy and many a naval officer says privately there never will be. Oscar De Priest, three-term Republican Congressman (1929-35) from Chicago's colored district, appointed three Negroes to the Naval Academy. None got in. One was disqualified for imperfect eyesight, one because of age (limits are 16-20), one flunked the entrance exams. Negro Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell who defeated Mr. De Priest in 1934 had better luck. Year ago he appointed James Lee Johnson Jr., who got into the Naval Academy, lasted one semester, was then flunked out (TIME, March...
...when they order me to travel 3.000 miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members of a German machine-gun nest, he murmurs, "What a dish!'' and bowls them over like clay ducks in a shooting gallery...
Black Limelight (by Gordon Sherry; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). The villain of Black Limelight suffers from "nyctalopia." This medical term actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic...