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...Bigger Than Stereo" [Feb. 2] was read with much interest here at the Ohio School for the Deaf. Five young men from the school assisted me in moving a six-rank Wurlitzer theater organ to my home. One student from Gallaudet College (the world's only institution of higher learning for the deaf) assisted in the electrical and mechanical reconditioning of the instrument...
Most persons who are deaf can hear something so mighty as the Mighty Wurlitzer. The instrument is an endless source of pleasure and fascination...
Trodden charged that the proposed Inner Belt highgway will cut through Cambridge, "driving out many families and many thousands of tax dollars." "Although the City Council has suggested many alternative routes to the Hiighway Commission," Trodden said, "the plans have all fallen on deaf ears...
...Almost all of Ed Reischauer's life has been a preparation for his present task. He is the son of a Presbyterian missionary who taught philosophy for 25 years at Tokyo's big Meiji Gakuin University and, with his wife, founded Japan's first school for deaf-mutes. Asked why he did not become a missionary, Reischauer grins...
Divided Family. In Paris last spring for the filming of Gigot (in which he plays a deaf-mute). Gleason was asked by an A.P. reporter what he thought of French girls. He refused to comment, saying: "I just happen to be a one-girl guy." The one girl at the moment is Honey Merrill, a bright, pretty, former showgirl who helps in Gleason's office and has loved him devotedly for five years. Before that. Gleason's steady companion was Marilyn Taylor, dancer and younger sister of his choreographer on The Jackie Gleason Show. She eventually left...