Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of Robert B. Irwin (M.A. Harvard '07), the sightless Executive director of the American Foundation for the Blind, was noted in a page-long editorial in the Saturday Review of Literature called "Writ in Sound...
Irwin, the Review said, is next to Louis Braille as a benefactor to the blind. It was Irwin who succeeded in bringing literature to the blind through the medium of photographic discs known as talking books. He made the books for finger-reading both less cumbersome and less costly by half...
...extended to seamen, domestic servants, employes of educational and charitable institutions and other groups that would add 6,000,000 to the board's present clientele of 42,500,000; that the board increase its subsidies to the States for dependent children and the blind. Then Chairman Altmeyer outlined his, and the White House's, three-fold plan to give more...
Three years ago on a trip to Chicago, British Band-Leader Jack Hylton took with him a slight-framed pianist named Alec Templeton. Pianist Templeton was blind, but he had large, sensitive ears. Chicago listeners were amazed at his uncanny versatility. He could ripple through a Mozart concerto with thorough orthodoxy, and next minute go to town in a jammed-up version of The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round. Not only could he swing Bach, he could Bach swing. He could improvise in the style of any classical composer, aid get such a good likeness that most listeners...
Templeton's ability springs at least in part from his blindness. Blind from birth he has developed remarkable acuteness and memory in hearing. Today he recognize people by their voices, and can readily identify a voice he has not heard for yean Once at a party he was asked to accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein. Asked if he knew the accompaniment to Lalo Symphonie Espagnole he said no, but the he would try it if somebody ran through once. While the 32-minute-long accompaniment was played, Templeton listened attentively, then played the whole thing from memory, made one mistake...