Word: heiner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this advice improved her deafness, but Marie went on in life cheerfully convinced that she was only a little hard of hearing and could manage well enough. She married a childhood friend named Henry Heiner, and settled down in Cleveland...
This is the simple story told by Mrs. Heiner in her autobiography, Hearing Is Believing (World Publishing Co.; $2), which this week goes into its second printing. Now president of Cleveland's famed Hearing and Speech Center and a trustee of the American Hearing Society, Mrs. Heiner for the past 13 years has campaigned for a better understanding of the problems faced by the five million-odd deaf people in the U.S. She has promoted schools and clinics for the training of deaf children, advocated better job placement, arranged for special hearing-aid wiring in theaters, concert halls...
...adjustment to deafness, Mrs. Heiner argues, lies for the most part with the individual. Mechanical devices have worked marvels; surgery may bring even greater advances. The catch is, Mrs. Heiner says, that too many deaf people, because of false vanity or personal eccentricity, refuse to take advantage of their opportunities for hearing what is going on about them. Says she: "If you really want to hear for sure, a way will be found. You may have to 'listen' in some unorthodox way, but some magnificent law of compensation makes acceptable substitutions...
Hadley, H. M.; Haltiwanger, R. S.; Hameman, J. T.; Hanley, R. J.; Harris B. D.; Heiner, G. G.; Henderson, E. L.; Hertz, W. J.; Hodges C. E.; Hooper, G. R.; Howe, R. W. Howe, W. C.; Huberman...
...Baltimore, Md., Park School, Ohio, The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.; Bynum E. Green Jr., Mobile, Ala., Murphy High School, Mobile; Robert S. Haltiwanger, Winston--Salem, N. C., R. J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem; Bradley D. Harris, Annapolis, Md., Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass.; Gordon G. Heiner III, Lexington, Va., Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; James M. Howe IV, Daytona Beach, Fla., The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...