Word: optometrist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Optometrist Grand Rapids, Mich...
...case against Father Divine, who with two followers is charged with the assault of a New Jersey contractor named Harry Green (TIME. May 3), was stalled because Green had not yet recovered from the wounds he received in ''God's Kingdom No. 1." -In 1916 an optometrist of Youngstown, Ohio named Dr. Harman G. Huffman fasted 59 days to cure his heart trouble, died of starvation. In 1920 Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork lasted 74 days before dying of starvation as a political gesture...
...Optometrist Greensboro...
...some 20,000 licensed optometrists. Of these less than 200 belong to the exclusive Academy, founded in 1919 by ten men. Election is by invitation and replacements are now made only when members die. The Academy prides itself on a membership more interested in science than in moneymaking. To be considered at all, a candidate must show two pieces of original research. At the Academy's convention last week, Optometrist Laurence P. Folsom of South Royalton, Vt., advised his colleagues that "the way to make money from the practice of optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads...
TIME reported the American Academy of Optometry's $1,000 award to Dr. William Feinbloom, optometrist of Manhattan's West Side Hospital, for his telescopic spectacles with triple cylindrical (instead of spherical) lenses which in some cases enabled 98%-blind patients to see well enough to work. Zeiss telescopic spectacles, not new, have been shown helpful in about 3% of clinical cases. Dr. Feinbloom's development is new, still of debated importance. The Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight advised "strenuous protests" against Dr. Feinbloom's "socalled improvement." The American Foundation for the Blind...