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...such a world, Héctor Poleo has painted himself as a shriveled, sightless old man, ready for death to snatch him (see cut). In a corner of the canvas, like a bit of an old snapshot, is a tiny picture of Poleo as he really looks. Beneath that hangs one sick eye, freshly torn from its socket, staring, in dumb fascination, from a ruined wall...
...provost resigned. Shortly after, in 1944, Founder Riddle shut down Avon and turned over the property to President Roosevelt, a family friend, for use as an Army school for the blind. Its purposely crooked brick walls, sagging stone stairs and mazelike character made it a natural for sightless veterans learning to "braille along...
Long-Arm was succeeded by many rival princes, among them Basil the Cross-eyed, who later became Basil the Sightless and Ivan Kalita, called Moneybag, who first gave Moscow something like an ordered economy. The young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will...
Using a Broadway theatre makes it certain at the start that everyone will be able to see and hear everything for exactly half the price he would pay for a sightless, soundless seat in the Met. And the production of the Menotti work by the Ballet Society, a nonprofit group organized just this year to encourage new ventures in music and dance, so far outdistances anything the Metropolitan ever dreamed of that it is like a different artistic field entirely...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...