Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall a story in TIME'S Education section called "The Spinning Eyes" (TIME, Oct. 18), the story of Alan Maxwell Palmer, onetime advertising man, who lost a hand in World War II, went to Mexico City to live, and then found that he had permanently lost his sight after undergoing a series of brain tumor operations. During his lonely hours of boredom, Palmer conceived a project that he thought would help other blind people, particularly those among the uncounted thousands of illiterates all over Mexico...
...Palmer's project was to provide free long-playing records of Mexican classics, concerts, songs and stories by professional artists, and a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." The project got off to a smooth start, well-known entertainers offered their services free, a U.S. recording company said it would make the recordings at cost. A campaign was started for public contributions to pay for playing equipment and making the records. But suddenly, as TIME'S story explained, there was an urgent reason to complete the fund-raising...
...days ago I received a letter from TIME'S Correspondent Dave Richardson in Mexico City, who had just visited Palmer. Wrote Richardson: "No sooner did the TIME story appear," Palmer told me last evening, "than a wealthy Chicagoan telephoned me long-distance to offer to help us in any way. He said he also was handicapped, being stone-deaf, and wanted to help others less fortunate than he. Besides giving us a sizable donation, he agreed to act as our Midwest fund-raising representative...
...Palmer went on to tell Richardson how other TIME readers had responded to his story. Within days of the story's appearance, he said, letters began to arrive from all over the U.S., many enclosing checks. One check came from an Ohio pastor, who had read the TIME story to his congregation. The Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church wrote that he had used the story of Palmer's project in a sermon. A German lieder singer and a French basso profundo offered to do free recordings. The Cornell Glee Club, which...
...response, to his story that Palmer enjoyed most came from Frederick Emerson Peters, who is a fabulous impersonator and confidence man. Recently, Palmer received a letter from Peters that was sent from a cell in the Lorton, Va. penitentiary. Peters wrote that he had read the TIME story about Palmer in the prison dentist's office, recalled that he had once met Palmer long ago, and sent him a $50 check for the project...