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...Capitol to his home at Berwyn Heights, Md., he recollected that he had an errand at a grocery store. At his request the automobile was stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving. Mr. Leen lay at the side...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, to address it at luncheon. Senator Schall launched into his favorite tirade against Roosevelt: the dictator, who has crushed free speech, free press, free broadcasting. He told how recently, after he had made a similar speech, a toast to the President had been proposed. Turning his sightless eyes on his lawyer listeners he cried...
...professor in the Ukraine invented an electric eye to enable the blind to read ordinary books. A photoelectric cell scans the letters, converts them into electric impulses which make a specially constructed desk vibrate. The sightless reader is expected to put his fingertips on the desk, translate the vibrations...
...against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...practice with Dr. Zoong Ing Ting. In Manhattan last week Columbia University Press announced publication of Eleanor Gertrude Brown's Ph. D. dissertation on Milton's Blindness. "No one," wrote she, "would deny that blindness has its deprivations. That it has its compensations is recognized by every sightless person." Eleanor Brown, 46, was born blind. Scholarships and loans from women's clubs paid for readers and other expenses at Ohio State University but her own industry got her an A. B. in 3½ years. As an experiment, a Dayton high school gave her a teaching...