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...Teacher when she was rescued from what she called the "no-world." The play and the motion picture brought alive for yet another generation the example of Helen Keller's conquest of adversity. Last week, shortly before her 88th birthday, Helen Keller died in her home at Easton, Conn. Soon after entering college, she wrote: "A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear." Her success in that test is her epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Life of Joy | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

Helen Keller '04, perhaps Radcliffe's most reknowned alumna, died in her sleep Saturday afternoon at her home in Westport, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miss Helen Keller '04, Age 87, Dies in Sleep | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

Last week, in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Arthur Innes, Arline Grant and Malcolm S. Beinfield of the Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital reported that they have further shortened the average postoperative hospital stays in four types of cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Get Up & Get Out | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...lightweights, who have been rowing every day through reading and even exam periods, leave June 1, for Red Top at New London, Conn., where they will continue training until the American Henley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lights to Enter Three Regattas In Summer Tour | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

Died. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 86, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor during the devastating Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart attack; in Groton, Conn. In a military investigation following the Pearl Harbor debacle, Kimmel and his Army counterpart, Lieut. General Walter C. Short, were charged with "unpreparedness" in allowing themselves to be caught so totally by surprise. Both were relieved of command after which they quickly retired from service. To his dying day, Kimmel believed that he was the scapegoat of an F.D.R. maneuver "to get the U.S. into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 24, 1968 | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

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