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...some areas, double the national average. As of last week, the state had tallied more than 230 temperature-related deaths. In sweltering St. Louis, calls for ambulances rose to 350 a day, almost double the normal level. Many of the city's elderly, explained Health Commissioner Helen Bruce, "live in areas they consider dangerous, so they have nailed their windows down and keep their doors locked." During the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, St. Louis residents beat the heat by sleeping in parks or along the Mississippi river front. Today, says one police officer, "you'd have...
...that I would be most proud to teach down the hall from Helen Scott? I feel there is more than semantics involved when she refers to her class as "children" rather than "kids," and the individual as "a child" rather than...
...DIED. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 79, actress-turned-politician who as a Democratic Congresswoman from California lost a notoriously bitter U.S. Senate campaign in 1950 to a young Republican named Richard Nixon; of cancer; in Manhattan. The election battle, in which Nixon's attacks on his liberal opponent for being "soft on Communism" first earned him the epithet "Tricky Dick," ended Douglas' political career. She rarely spoke about her onetime foe afterward, but her husband, Actor Melvyn Douglas, was less reticent: "A little, sneaky kind of character...
...Helen's need of Teacher is obvious," Lash writes of Annie's work, the tireless hours spent spelling whole books into her pupil's hands, the sacrifice of her own impaired eyes. "But equally powerful was Teacher's reliance on Helen to keep her misanthropic impulses under control and to give her a sense of purpose in life." Annie saw and spoke for Helen; Helen loved and protected the woman she called Teacher in return. Their relationship was at once prosaic and parasitic. With Annie's death, Helen wrote a close friend, "For a while, I feel...
When Lash set out to write Helen and Teacher, few people saw a need for another book on Helen Keller. But his book is likely to remain the last word on the subject for some time--at least until more new evidence is discovered. Lash's story is long and exhausting at times, but it is always enlightening and, above all, heartening. "God gave us life for happiness not misery," Helen Keller told one reporter on her 80th birthday. "I believe that happiness, attained, should be shared...