Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From San Francisco comes a MEDICINE story dealing with a case so rare that the attending physician admits: "We have nothing exactly like it in world literature." The Lost Faces tells what it is like to go through life with visual agnosia...
When he looked into the shaving mirror each morning, the face he saw was that of a total stranger. Sometimes, to get visual proof that he was looking at himself. J.S. stuck out his tongue: the face in the mirror did the same. But J.S. simply could not recognize himself or his wife. This caused trouble, when, for instance, they took different aisles in the supermarket and agreed to meet at the checkout. Since then. J.S. rarely speaks (especially to a lady) until he is spoken to. He would have the same trouble with his children, but they are young...
...This still did not explain the case. Doctors found a small snapshot showing him as a World War II pilot: the face was clearly recognizable and small enough to be well within his tunneled view. But J.S. could not identify himself. Said one doctor: "He seemed to have no visual image of himself to compare with the photograph...
Played less as a comedy than other Guinness films of this type, The Detective makes up in clever dialogue what it lacks in suspense and visual gags. Anyone who found The Lavender Hill Mob enjoyable should like this only a little less. It just seems a shame that the fine character of Kind Hearts and Coronets, Oliver Twist and the Mudlark should become as much of a type, and be handled in the same way as Francis the talking mule...
...spent 30 years barnstorming the U.S. and Canada-the last 19 of them in a trailer-teaching the Bible with the help of pictures. When Clinton and his wife Georgia settled down a couple of years ago in West Richland, Wash. (pop. 1,000), they set about starting a Visual Bible Training Center...