Word: optometrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to Miami, Harvey told the Coast Guard investigators a tale of flaming horror aboard the Bluebelle. The graceful, 33-year-old ketch had been chartered for a week's cruise by Dr. Arthur Duperrault, 41, a wealthy Green Bay, Wis., optometrist, and his family: Wife Jean, 38; Son Brian, 14; Daughter Terry Jo, 11, and little red-haired René. Mary Harvey served as her husband's crew and ship's cook. For two days the vacationers cruised lazily among the Bahama islands. At Sandy Point on Great Abaco Island, their only port of call, they...
...Irving A. Fradkin, says Humorist (and former teacher) Sam Levenson. is ''an optometrist with vision." His vision is of a community-supported college-scholarship loan plan, and the idea has spread within three years from the New England textile city of Fall River. Mass., to about 50 small towns in eleven states scattered from Rhode Island to Kansas and from Minnesota to Louisiana...
Last week, adding up the balance sheet of the enterprise at the close of the graduation season, Fradkin reported that 400 scholarships had been granted by local communities out of a total collection of between $100,000 and $125,000. Sighed starry-eyed Optometrist Fradkin: "If we can do what we have done with no money, what could we do with money...
After an Army stint in Europe during World War II, Downing decided to become an optometrist because the only optometrist he had ever known back home was rich enough to own a Cadillac. But while he was completing his studies in Chicago, he fell in with a group of young writers and painters whose nightlong talk of art and life intoxicated him. He attended classes at the Art Institute, in 1950 scraped together enough money to get to Paris. Except for an occasional trip home, he has lived there ever since...