Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived to see the day, but on his deathbed, he seemed to know it was coming. "Oh, unsearchable mystery of the human heart," he said to a friend. "I am convinced that my mission on earth is accomplished." Last week, the mission he performed was put into words by Helen Keller. "We, the blind," said she at the Sorbonne ceremony, "are as indebted to Louis Braille as mankind is to Gutenberg . . . The raised letters under our fingers are precious pods from which has sprouted our intellectual wealth. Without a dot system, what a chaotic, inadequate affair our education would...
...Helen Traubel was warned before she went to Japan that the Japanese prefer instrumentalists to vocalists. Moreover, they could hardly be expected to understand the words of her Wagner and spirituals. But husky Soprano Traubel had full confidence in the effect of her big voice. An old baseball buff,* she answered that she would throw her voice "like DiMaggio throws a ball," and she was sure that the Japanese would "catch it." In 26 concerts in a dozen cities, Soprano Traubel had the Japanese fielding every note...
Anything Can Happen. Folksy film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (José Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April...
...Schary, one of history's most fascinating lap dissolves happened in 1620 when the Pilgrims on the good ship Mayflower faded out at Plymouth, England, and appeared 96 days later, anchored off what was to be Plymouth, Mass. Nearly two years ago Schary set M-G-M Scripter Helen Deutsch to digging into all the facts and legends about the Pilgrims' mysterious voyage. The result, Plymouth Adventure, was finally on film last week...
Anything Can Happen. Folksy, affectionate film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (Jose Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April...