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...night last week, doctors and friends broke the news to the New York Daily Mirror's Labor Columnist Victor Riesel: he was blind. "He took it beautifully," said a friend. Next day, exactly a month after a young thug flung sulphuric acid into Riesel's face on a Manhattan sidewalk (TIME, April 16), the doctors' bulletin announced: "The cumulative degenerative processes, stemming from the deep and severe acid burns in Mr. Riesel's eyes, proved impossible to overcome...
...money, Twelve is sometimes such a spendthrift that he is often flat broke. As one mother put it, "He can't stand prosperity." He is far more concerned about his appearance but only up to a point. A girl might spend hours primping in front of a mirror, yet go off to a party with a dirty neck. Boys will proudly wear ties they consider sharp, "but that does not mean that they do not wish to wear their sneakers-even to church...
...nation whose favorite weekly pastime is "having a flutter" by risking sixpence in football pools on the chance of winning $280,000, the proposal was hailed with glee. "Honest Harold always pays," headlined the Laborite Daily Mirror. "Give him your quid and you might win ?1,000. Gambling? Oh dear...
Since the liberation, la presse pourrie ("the rotten press") has been largely reformed in the dominating hands of such professionals as France-Soir's tiny, dynamic Managing Director Pierre Lazareff, 49, who worked in the U.S. during the war for Manhattan's Daily Mirror. In the last ten years, the French capital's dailies, which now number 14, have also undergone what the French consider increasing "Americanization," i.e., more news and features, less opinion...
...size of a radio telescope is determined by the diameter of its "dish," a parabolic wire mesh which receives radio waves in much the same manner as the mirror of an optical telescope receives light waves...