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...World. President of the group and one of its most active members is Mrs. Robert G. Davidson, wife of a Chicago advertising man, who learned in June 1949 that her four-month-old daughter Patty was blind.* "What that meant to me," says Mrs. Davidson, "was that Patty would never be able to play like other children, never grow up to know the fun of dances, skating parties, sleigh rides. It was like the end of the world...
...then somebody told Mrs. Davidson about Parents of the Blind; she joined, soon became secretary, then president. All members have a double job: first, to learn from experts how to handle their own children; second, to reach other parents and pass the knowledge along. Mrs. Davidson showed how well she had learned when Patty began to walk at 16 months (many blind babies still crawl at 24 months). She learned to teach Patty to feed herself. "You stand behind the youngster," she explains, "and ease her into a regular rhythm-dip, slide, and in the mouth; dip, slide...
After a tour of Israel, where his sitters included President Chaim Weizman, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, a few "men in the street," and members of the cabinet, Sculptor Jo Davidson arrived in Paris with a group of plaster busts to be cast in bronze. It was the beginning of a Davidson project to make a bronze history of the new country...
...many good books in the field of history, two were standouts: British Historian Arthur Bryant's The Age of Elegance, a brilliant, lively account of England in the second decade of the igth Century, and Marshall Davidson's handsome two-volume Life in America, a top-notch social history of the U.S. that was worth...
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