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Patrick Dacre Trevor-Roper,* a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, was well aware that ever since 19th century critics dubbed El Greco an "astigmatic lunatic" the sight defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El...
Bride and Groom: The invitation was marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE and read: "One of the biggest show-business weddings of this era will take place when Shirl Conway, the musical comedy and TV star, and Composer Bernie [Vanessa] Wayne, will be married over the NBC network from 2:30 to...
"Tell him this is very fast Japanese lens and American film."
...doctors say they have never seen a case of nearsightedness which became less severe after the wearing of eyeglasses, so that the lenses could be made weaker. But after the small, plastic contact lenses that cover only the eye's cornea became available in 1939, some doctors began to see such cases. So far no ophthalmologist (M.D.) has published these findings, though several report them privately. Last week, at a National Contact Lens Congress in Manhattan, an optometrist from Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. Robert J. Morrison, reported on 1,100 myopes, aged seven to 19, whom he had fitted with...
Agee had a unique way of looking at reality, unblinking and with the lens-precision of the movies he loved, yet gentle-the manner of a tender realist. His description of how the boy and his sister are led to see their father's corpse in the coffin will...