Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four miles, enough heat will be concentrated on this area to cook the tissue, which will turn to something like hard-boiled white of egg. The immediate effect will be a large blind spot. Then, as inflammation spreads, the eye will lose its sight entirely. At night, when the pupil is wide open, blinding will occur at 25 miles or more...
...Paris gallery. "I was terribly shocked," he remembers. "I was as shocked as if I saw a woman walking on the Boulevard de la Madeleine stripped naked." Young Nicolas soon got over his astonishment at the new art. He began to paint himself, grew up to become a pupil of the modern school and, eventually, Greece's best living painter. Last week he was in London giving the city its first good look at the work he signs with a family name "Ghika...
...Madison Square Garden, Dukes & Co. found themselves in unaccustomed trouble at half time: a 35-35 tie. In the dressing room, Coach Russell gave Dukes a dressing down for misplaying St. Bonaventure's big man, Center Bill Edwards, on defense. Russell, who never pampers his star senior pupil, gave Dukes new defensive instructions. The big center told his coach: "I'll remember. I'll give him room on defense. I'll play closer on offense. The big guy won't bother...
...mere study was not enough; a true expert had to have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made a mistake. "Look here. The whole corner has been painted in-and clumsily at that. See the different false shades?" Schoeller would look again, and sure enough, the entire aura of the painting seemed to change...
Billy was not the only such Baltimore pupil. Just after New Year's, 300 school janitors, firemen and custodians had gone on strike, and 123 heatless schools had been forced to close down. For 80,000 of the city's 130,000 students, the strike might have meant a long extra holiday. But General Manager D. L. (Tony) Provost of station WBAL-TV got an idea...