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Inheriting melancholia from his father and scrofulously infected by his nurse's milk, Sam Johnson got off to a bad start. Though huge-framed and strong as a bull, he was myopic, twitchety, haunted by fears of madness and death. Net result, says Kingsmill, was to make him the apotheosis of honesty and common sense. "Johnson's fear of insanity immensely strengthened his innate truthfulness and sense of reality, for the lies and illusions which make life more comfortable for ordinary men appeared to him as the first steps towards madness." Extremely indolent by nature, Johnson was capable...
...rare among unofficial ambassadors in being properly and adequately accredited. A brilliant scholar who has taken every degree open to a professor in France, he knows more about the U. S. and U. S. history than the vast majority of U. S. citizens. No myopic flatfoot, Professor Faÿ served nearly five years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits to the U.S., has lectured at Columbia University, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State et al. Still...
...always insisted that John Rogers was a self-taught sculptor. In 1858 he had saved enough pennies for a trip to Italy - not originally to study but to rest his overstrained eyes on the long sea trip. In Rome, where he arrived with a curly brown beard like a myopic apostle, he took a few lessons from a British sculptor named Spence and learned the newly discovered process for making plaster casts from gelatin molds. John Rogers invented many improvements...
...exist (to the U. S.), Soviet Russia is doing pretty well in gross tonnage of literary exports. Maxim Gorki's latest (839 pages) ups the total by at least a couple of pounds. A continuation of Bystander (TIME, April 14, 1930), The Magnet carries the story of Clim Samghin, myopic Russian intellectual, a few hundred thousand words nearer its goal...
...Lank, myopic John La Farge was born in New York in 1835, son of a French emigre from Santo Domingo who had made a fortune in real estate in Louisiana and New York. He died in Providence, R. I. 75 years later. A confirmed aristocrat and cosmopolite, he traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with...