Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since she settled in Bangkok, Virginia-born Genevieve Caulfield* has brought to Thailand's 11,000 blind hope that they might otherwise never have known. Blind herself, she was determined to break down Thailand's traditional indifference to the handicapped, eventually founded the first school for the blind that the country has ever had. Last week, 8,700 miles away, her story was retold at a special ceremony in Philadelphia. There, as part of the city's Education Week for the Blind, Genevieve Caulfield received in absentia a small, belated, but much deserved reward: a plaque...
Destination: Asia. Genevieve Caulfield lost her sight in infancy, when a careless doctor dropped some searing medicine into her eyes. In childhood her mother urged her to play like other youngsters, explained to Genevieve's friends: "She can't see, but she can play as you do. Perhaps you might help her a little if there are holes in the ground." Later, after graduating from two different schools for the blind, Genevieve became fascinated by what she had heard about Asia, decided to learn Japanese and then take a degree at Columbia University's Teachers College...
...previous life, and not even the government seemed to want to interfere. "This is really unnecessary work the late Prince Rajada Sonakul told her. "When we finish educating all the delinquent boys in Thailand, perhaps we can do something for the physically handicapped." Weary of official brushoffs. Miss Caulfield decided to take her case to the people. She set up a booth at Bangkok's big Constitutional Fair, for seven nights straight gave demonstrations in reading Braille. Though the people watched and listened, they did not believe. Some said she was a spy; most thought her reading was only...
...monopolized by Mamma, Life with Father and The Goldbergs. The young parents' division (both urban and suburban) is covered by Make Room for Daddy and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Cox and Actress Benoit can never hope to equal the eager smooching of Barry Nelson and Joan Caulfield (My Favorite Husband), the pratfalls of Joan Davis and Jim Backus (I Married Joan), or the downright silliness of Ray Milland and Phyllis Avery (Mr. McNutley). Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy) and Peg Lynch (Ethel and Albert) have all the first patents on feminine illogic, while Betty White (Life with...
...year run as a radio show starring Lucille Ball. In moving the show to television, CBS's West Coast vice president in charge of network programs, Harry Ackerman, searched hard and long for a properly glamorous pair of young marrieds. He finally decided on Hollywood's Joan Caulfield ("She has some kind of half-woman, half-gamin, half-childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband is long on character, short on plot, and played for laughs. It does buck...