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...celluloid cup performing the function of lenses and inserted in the eye-socket so that light can reach the optic nerve of a blind man has been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
...insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee of the Rus-sian Red Cross Society. Her purpose is to appeal for aid for the famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books - everything - as well as foodstuffs, and Russia...