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McDarrah advertised beat lecturers, fund-raisers, photographic models, reciting poets (fees: $25 to $50 per evening). While more response came, not all clients were acceptable. McDarrah' turned down an interested trio of amateur photographers who wanted to improve their lens technique with beatnik girls. He had already found the...
...most of these (in the 15-40 age range) take to them for vanity. A few, such as models and actresses, need them for professional reasons. Among them: Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1951), Hollywood's Deborah Kerr, Ann Sothern, Debra Paget. Since the lenses can be tinted, they came in handy for turning grey-eyed Nina Foch (a regular wearer anyway) into a brown-eyed Egyptian in The Ten Commandments...
Esther Williams, who is myopic, wears them out of the water but does not bother with them when immersed. Swimmers who need correction for reasons other than myopia usually wear the bigger scleral lens because it is harder to dislodge under water. Skindivers who use scuba favor contacts because spectacles...
Special types of contact lenses are being devised for a variety of visual defects. There are two main types of bifocals, one squared off so that it will not rotate, the other made of concentric circles, with the reading prescription on the outside (this type can rotate freely). When the eye has lost its own lens because of a cataract operation, a contact can help in many cases to supply the tremendous correction needed. Another type is being tried in the early stages of glaucoma. There is evidence that contacts may slow down the progression of myopia, and hope that...
"Now, Mr. Kintner, without warning, you have changed your rules," wrote Reeves. "In front-page news stories and in big, black, damaging headlines, your commission has accused a number of great American companies of deceptive and dishonest advertising. Stripped of legalistic verbiage, these crippling press indictments rest on flimsy ground...