Word: blindnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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March of a Nation. Now old and nearly blind, tall, austere Eamon de Valera, 76, had stepped down as Taoiseach (Prime Minister), confident that his people would send him "into the park," i.e., to the presidential residence in Dublin's Phoenix Park and to the job that he himself had declared to be "above politics." For 40 years he had dominated the Irish scene, and for 21 of those he had headed the government. Though born in Manhattan -a fact that was to help him escape a British firing squad-he grew...
...Orleans Street Singer (Snooks Eaglin; Folkways). A blind Negro singer in selections from his standard repertory -Let Me Go Home Whiskey, St. James Infirmary. The merit of this unusual disk lies less in the polished, pop-flavored numbers (Rock Island Line) than in Eaglin's moving, soft-burred address to the blues, notably Trouble in Mind...
...dresses like a color-blind D.P. from Dogpatch. She claims to comb her scraggle-cropped, copper-colored hair with an eggbeater, but in fact usually attacks it only with her fingers. Her income has grown to six figures, but she haunts bargain counters, a born haggler. She handles her car like a hopped-up hot-rodder, laces into the Los Angeles freeway competition with the voice and free-wheeling vocabulary of a longshoreman...
...general that the strike is inevitable. A shear operator at a Jones & Laughlin tin mill shrugged his broad shoulders and said: "The men don't want a strike, and they don't want raises. They don't know what the union does, but they have blind faith. They'll back the union so its position won't be weakened...
Across the Board. In Memphis, police arrested James Earl Marshall for practicing medicine without a license after he had advertised that he could heal the "lame, sick and blind, and show you how to get easy money, a good car, a home and many other things you need...