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Died. Mrs. Helen Eakin Eisenhower. 49, wife of Pennsylvania State University President Milton S. Eisenhower, sister-in-law of Dwight D. Eisenhower; of complications following pneumonia; in State College...
Fame carried her to Hollywood in 1919, and here the sober script calls a thoroughly slap-happy recess to watch a flag-waving Helen, as the star of the film Deliverance (supposedly based on her life story), lead the charge of a revolutionary rabble across something that looks suspiciously like Concord Bridge...
...world?", an interviewer once asked Helen Keller. "If you can, what is it like?" "Yes, yes, yes," Helen Keller said. "I can see, and that is why I can be so happy in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world." The golden night of Helen Keller will probably in the long run outshine the limelight she has lived in. Like the "golden flower" of the Chinese contemplatives, her experience has been a redoubtable witness to a doubting age that when other helpers fail...
...picture tells simply-with the help of yellowed snapshots, newsreel footage and the narrative voice of Katharine Cornell-the well-known story of how at the age of 19 months Helen lost sight and hearing from a childhood illness. At the age of seven she "began to live" when Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a trained teacher of the deaf and blind, came to work with...
...Helen learned so prodigiously well that within three years, at the age of ten, she was corresponding vigorously with Phillips Brooks, the Episcopalian divine. Also at ten, she published a short story in the St. Nicholas magazine. Before long she was reading and writing fluently in five languages, and at 24 she was graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College...