Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the first word of Genesis to the last word of Revelation, the 774,000-word Bible (King James Version) can now be heard as well as read. Manhattan's American Foundation for the Blind, Inc. last week completed Talking Book records of the entire Bible...
Each of the 27 U.S. libraries which have departments for the blind will get complete sets of these records. Packed in stout cartons the records will be lent free (no postage required) to the blind, who can play them in their homes...
Said the New York Sun's Columnist Dave Boone: "It would be fine if everybody, not only the blind, could benefit by the talking Bible, with the records made by painstaking speakers. The way the Gospel is rushed through and mumbled in too many churches, with no more expression than if the most moving passages were something on the back of a railroad ticket, is inexcusable...
...blind people were waiting in a Manhattan hospital last week for secondhand eyes. Never since doctors discovered how to replace fogged corneas with clear ones from corpses (TIME, April 13, 1936) have there been enough eye transplants to go round. Doctors estimate that the cornea operation could help 100,000 U.S. citizens to see, but it is a rare type of philanthropist who at his death gives his sound eyes for this purpose...
...their removal. Each of the hospitals in succession will get a week's supply of eyes, will turn over any extra eyes to other hospitals that need them. A very few eyes will go a long way-one sound eye can provide grafts for as many as three blind eyes. Once the eye bank gets established, no blind person whose cornea can be repaired should have to wait very long...