'Aye, Aye, Sir’
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LONDON, April 14. Lord Nelson, Britain’s most famous sailor, did not wear a patch over his right eye, a naval eye surgeon has said. All the pictures of the famous admiral with a patch were “eyewash”, said Surgeon Commander Crawford Barras, the consultant eye surgeon at the Royal Navy Hospital at Haslar, Hampshire. "An enemy cannon ball did send a shower of splinters into his right eye at the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794,” said the commander. “But he could still tell the difference between light and dark with the injured eye and it was never removed. His appearance was normal. “Later his surgeon advised him to get a green shade to protect his good eye from the sun, and he had the shade stitched to his cocked hat rather like the peak of a cap —but that was for his left eye.”
Priestly Celibacy. Pope Paul, worried by a growing movement in favour of a married clergy, is preparing a major document reasserting the law of priestly celibacy, Vatican sources said yesterday.—Vatican City, April 14.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31345, 15 April 1967, Page 13
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