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...sophomore in a U. S. women's college were to write the story of her life the world would pay some little attention?women's colleges and the world's attention being what they are. Yet 25 years ago Sophomore Helen Keller achieved world fame with her Story of My Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Miss Keller, regretting her useless ears more than her useless eyes, informed Thomas Edison (himself deaf): "If I were a great inventor like you, Mr. Edison, I would invent an instrument that would enable every deaf person to hear." "Oh you would, would you?" said he. "Well. I think it would be a waste of time. People say so little that is worth listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Tropical Nights", the stage show, starts in like a Hemenway five o'clock gym class but has a bright spot in the appearance of the "Keller Sisters and Lynch" a song and dance team far better than the typical run. There is also an amusing tumbling...

Author: By R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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