Not keeping up I. “One main eye problem that is not treated in pets is refractive error (near- and farsightedness and astigmatism),” according to Eye Facts (November/ December), published by the UIC College of Medicine. “Most dogs are farsighted and astigmatic; however, since they don’t read the newspaper, they seldom complain.”
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“If you were going to go to a new world would you pack a picture of a moose?” asks Kerstin B. Lane in a fund-raising letter for the Swedish American Museum Center on North Clark, describing its collection of moose paintings. “Apparently, many immigrants brought with them, in their trunks, paintings to remind them…of the moose in their homeland.”
“These days bankers look at me as if I’m an almost-normal human being,” says Marilu Meyer, president of Castle Construction Corporation, in Urban Affairs Update (November). But it was not always so: “The first banker I talked to wanted me to buy a different kind of company from the one I wound up running. He suggested, you know, t-shirt imprinting, travel agency, the more traditional female-type things. . . . [Another] banker, a man, suggested that I ought to go back into community work and throw the ‘marvelous’ parties he remembered my organizing. Well, we switched banks that very day and another bank gave us the line of credit [$50,000] we needed. But when I bought my partner out several years ago, that banker called me in to say, ‘Now that you don’t have your partner’s husband to co-sign your notes, we’re going to drop your line of credit to $25,000.’ So I moved to yet another bank, and there I got into difficulty when I had the audacity to be quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying that banks did not treat women and minorities in an equitable fashion. The banker confronted me with the newspaper, declaring, ‘How dare you talk about bankers that way.’ That was the day I looked for yet another bank…”
