Word: nemser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence is impressive. Alex Alazraki. who was born with only stumps for arms and legs, uses the vestigial limbs to pop tiny screws into packages, punches out orders at a respectable hunt-and-peck speed on the typewriter, drives his own car to work. Murray Nemser, his backbone fused rigid by war injuries, does a full day's work estimating contract bids while stretched out on a mobile cot beside his desk. A one-armed man, using a special jig, performs a delicate soldering job. Women with arthritic-weakened wrists wind wires with the aid of an Abilities-designed...
Winner in the big-band category was the ly-piece Lab Band from North Texas State College, which offered imaginative arrangements of standards, plus an original number by Composition Student Morgan Powell titled Powell One. Most remarkable winner of the numerous individual prizes was 233-lb. Vocalist Lois Nemser (she is undergoing psychiatric treatment to help reduce her weight), who won an ovation singing with The Four Axemen from the University of Cincinnati. In a low, wistful voice with overtones of both Jeri Southern and Julie London, 21-year-old Lois astounded judges with her thoroughly professional renditions of Gone...