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...point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went to Major Johnston and, according to the court-martial charges, said: "If other pilots on this field...
...Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years. He was appointed Superintendent in 1924, succeeding Dr. William L. Ettinger who was politically ousted by Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan. Dr. O'Shea is kindly, gentle, petulant when criticized, sometimes in poor health and now poor in eyesight. A good Roman Catholic, he often was closeted with New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Superintendent O'Shea has publicly said: "I am no glutton for power." The two men most talked of to succeed him are not so minded. They are Deputy Superintendent Harold George Campbell...
...founder who left Harvard College because of faulty eyesight, but Richard Henry Dana Jr., a member of a distinguished Boston family. He shipped before the mast, while an undergraduate of Harvard, to cure a weakness of the eyes which threatened to spoil his career. On his return he graduated from Harvard and became an eminent lawyer. Two Years Before the Mast, a book he wrote describing his voyage, made him famous...
TIME did not confuse its Danas. Publisher Charles Anderson Dana entered Harvard in 1839, left in 1841 because of poor eyesight, did not return. Author Richard Henry Dana entered Harvard in 1831, left in 1833 because of eye trouble, returned in 1836, graduated...
About 22% of all U. S. public school children have poor eyesight. This is not entirely their teachers' fault or the fault of the buildings in which they study. But the percentage might well drop if schools were better lighted, and if busy teachers did not have to be relied on to raise and lower windowshades. So argued Engineer D. W. Atwater of Westinghouse Lamp Co. in a lecture at New York University fast week advocating a light-control device for schoolrooms. In a metal & glass cabinet affixed to the wall is a photoelectric cell adjusted to snap...