Word: tuscumbia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miracle of The Miracle Worker is that night after night, the militant kook from The Bronx and the tireless kid from Manhattan tenements re-create with consuming vitality the remarkable collaboration between blind child and half-blind adult that blossomed in Tuscumbia, Ala. three-quarters of a century ago. So successful are the two actresses that Author Gibson is convinced they transcend the bounds of mere acting. "I've always felt the curtain call was haunted," says Gibson. "A high percentage of the applause is for the people who really lived...
...million exported, v. $61 million imported from 1952 to 1957. Private utilities have bought little foreign gear, but the Tennessee Valley Authority last month selected Britain's C. A. Parsons & Co. Ltd. to build a 500,000 kw. turbogenerator-one of the world's biggest-at Tuscumbia, Ala., and said that Parsons is indeed "qualified, technically competent and adequately equipped." Parsons' evaluated bid of $13 million was $6,300,000 below the nearest domestic bidder. TVA found "the import duty [12% to 17%] is adequate to protect U.S. manufacturers against differences in labor costs." What about national...
FOREIGN BIDDER won a major Tennessee Valley Authority contract to build turbogenerator near Tuscumbia, Ala. Award went to England's C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., which bid $12,095,800, v. General Electric's low domestic...
...Pals. In Tuscumbia, Ala., Prisoner Herman Byrd cut through the jail wall on his second escape try in three weeks, left a note to Sheriff Raymond Wheeler: "Gone again, Raymond old buddy, I hate to do this but it looks like I have got to go. I hope to have better luck this time," clambered through his hole, surrendered to deputies who had heard him hacking away and were waiting on the spot...
...Playhouse 90 last week staged a remarkable drama of the real-life achievement of a remarkable woman. When she was only 21, Anne Sullivan of Boston went to Tuscumbia, Ala. to be coach and tutor to seven-year-old Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf. Annie's first act was to thrust a doll into the hands of her pupil. "When I had played with it a little while," recalled Helen Keller years later, "Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger...