Word: blindnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Manhattan's equally fertile and inventive Optometrist William Feinbloom (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933 et seq.) told a Buffalo gathering of optometrists how he had adapted the Fresnel lens to make trioptic spectacles for the near-blind. Feinbloom has concentrated for decades on the problem of 500,000 Americans who are legally blind (less than 10% useful vision), but who could read and work if only they could get the right glasses. Previous Feinbloom inventions supplied correction for only one focal range (close work such as reading and sewing, middle range for dressing and household tasks, or distance...
...also distorted the art market beyond both sense and sensibility, made old masters seem bargains. Rubens' Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, just acquired by the National Gallery, was bought last year in London for a mere $92,400; El Greco's Christ Healing the Blind brought only...
...they could fly. Once in Venice the rich young pixies were visited by an old family friend, dressed him up as a doge and danced around him to celebrate his birthday. He was Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of England. This seeing-eye doge was soon to help lead a blind generation into...
...Blind...
Miss Regan claimed that she obtain blanket permission to reproduce a six inch square of the map, including the buildings in question. She said that "since I am blind, I have no idea of what is on this map except that it is of the Harvard Square area...