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...Miracle Worker tells in remarkably unmawkish fashion the story of the childhood of Helen Keller. Miss Keller, left blind and deaf in infancy by a near-fatal illness, is deservedly one of the marvels of our age, a woman who despite her handicaps has "seen" and done more than many dream of. The "miracle worker" who awakened young Helen Keller to the world around her, who taught her to "talk," to "see," and to "hear" was Annie Sullivan, a Boston Irish girl, once blind herself...
...Tufts Arena Theatre provided an opportunity for student apprentices to acquire or improve their basic acting technique. Some years the group has had one or two truly outstanding talents; this summer there was none, but a few did show more than average aptitude, notably Karen Johnson, Alvin Cohen, and Helen Kelly...
Died. Dr. Helen Flanders Dunbar, 57, psychiatrist who pioneered in the study of the relationship of emotions to physical disease, reduced psychosomatic medicine to laymen's terms (Mind and Body, a 1947 bestseller), urged parents baffled by conflicting psychiatric advice to find a middle way between too much old-fashioned discipline for their children and too much modern freedom; by drowning; in the pool of her home in South Kent, Conn...
Married. Jack Westland, 54, Republican Congressman from Washington, who interrupted his 1952 campaign to win the National Amateur Golf Championship after trying seven times before; and Helen M. Geis, 42, assistant to new Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...
...INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...