Word: shofner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known to the trade as pulpit glasses and half-eyes -is lending a new mien to the far-sighted across the U.S. People of all ages and walks of life are popping up in demi-cheaters. "We used to sell about two pairs a month," says Milwaukee Optician James Shofner. "These days, we sell at least a pair...
...Shofner thinks that TV is responsible. "The half-spec enables people who only need glasses for reading to go through the evening paper and watch TV at the same time without taking their glasses off," he explains. Others extol the half eye's compactness in the pocket, its lightness on the nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...
What does a young man do when he stands 6 ft. 3 in. and weighs 215 Ibs., can run the 100-yd. dash in 9.8 sec., catch footballs like Del Shofner, and belt a baseball out of sight? He could, of course, become an orthopedic surgeon like his old man. But there are easier ways to make a lot of money. Just by signing his name to a contract with the Los Angeles Angels last week, Fred ("Rick") Reichardt of Stevens Point, Wis., picked up a cool $175,000 -which may be the biggest bonus ever paid to a baseball...
...Slip-Up. Last week the Bears came up against the Eastern champion New York Giants in the N.F.L. playoff. And-crunch-defense won again. Onto Chicago's Wrigley Field pranced the high-scoring (32 points per game) Giants, with wonderful Y. A. Tittle and his acrobatic receivers-Del Shofner, Frank Gifford, Aaron Thomas. There stood the glowering Bears, aching to cuff them around. At 7:22 of the first quarter, Tittle lofted his 37th touchdown pass of the year-a soft, 14-yd. beauty to Gifford. It was the only mistake the Bears made all day. A few minutes...
...fans braved Yankee Stadium's 13° cold to howl for Green Bay blood. Around New York the "smart" money was on the home-town Giants. The Packers were tired, the skeptics said. Nobody could pass like the Giants' Y. A. Tittle, nobody could catch like Del Shofner...