Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know from my own experience," Helen Keller once said, "how infinitely precious religion is to those who must walk without sight." In 1928 Author Keller, blind herself since the age of 19 months, got together with Protestant home-mission leaders and members of the International Council of Religious Education to do something about keeping other blind people better in touch with the church. They founded an organization called the John Milton Society, after the blind poet whose strong Puritan faith sustained him in his misfortunes...
Perhaps Martin's broad overplay finds partial justification in the job done by his fellow actors. He had to be ridiculous or they would have overshadowed him by their bizarre performances. Elaine Eldridge played the snuff-taking Ada Lester as though she were Helen Hayes doing Victoria. Mixing sweeping gestures, a tremulous voice (representing both infirmity and rage) and stiff posturings, she had a fine time being the Grande Dame of Back County, Georgia...
...HELEN GROVE MEYER Hamden, Conn...
...even as primitive satire, the story is more tolerable than the usual musicomedy romance. There are some amusing burlesque ditties-Who Is the Bravest? and Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. There are glittering Miles White costumes and gay Harry Horner sets. As Hazel, Helen Gallagher is an attractive, versatile and spirited malade imaginaire. And, with New York for a locale and a tour of it as part of the plot, Hazel Flagg at times achieves the welcome variety and topicality of a revue...
...committee's first witness was Mrs. Helen Balog, fluttery supervisor of the Foreign Service file room. Her files, she testified, were accessible to virtually any department hand who chose to open them. She knew of several instances where derogatory information had been removed. For example, she cited a case where a foreign service officer's reference, signed by Owen Lattimore, had vanished-at a time when Lattimore's name was high in the headlines...