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March 29, 1957 3 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The New Films! Talking Textbooks for Blind Students By Mytet SfandltK Words, WiH And Wisdom By William Morrii 1. towdown on TV Idol OSE FERRER has done a devastating- job with Al Mor-J In' heel-of-clay expose of a radio-TV idol, "THE GREAT MAN," which rent tonight at the SHADT OAK THEATER. Mr. Ferrer not only plays Joe Harris, the radio 'J.

newa reporter who uncovers a stinking back-trail when hi interviews all the people close to the Great Man, who has been killed In an automobile accident, at Harris prepares an eulogy program. He also wrote the terse and acrid acreenplay with Mr. Morgan and directed it In brilliant and lucid fashion. What cornea out is a tough. a More Than 3000 Volumes Recorded By Volunteers Through Recordings For the Blind, Program to Aid Those Seeking Higher Education By Virginia Irwin A Stiff Cerrttpondfrnt tha oit-DiiptcH NEW YORK, March 29.

ALTHOUGH Recording for the Blind, is only slightly more than five years old, this unique organization which records textbooks and other specialized educational material without charge for blind men and women seeking university degrees or professional careers, has done an impressive job. Its volunteer workers doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers, actors, housewives, authors have already completed the recording of some 3000 volumes. Contained on some 150,000 six-inch vinylite discs representing about 90,000 hours of reading, the recorded textbooks in this ever-growing library are circulated among hundeds of blind students and professional people all over the United States. Students as well as professors and instructors in 250 acci edited colleges and universities use the Recording for the Blind service and more and more welfare agencies, rehabilitation services and vocational guidance groups are asking that i 'I i I The Holey Homophones; IN the course of conducting a column, a writer receives many letters from readers, about 90 per cent of which. begin, "How could you be; so stupid The other, 10 per cent those which make constructive comments or ask question.

are a joy and a delight. But even among this group there is an occasional one that stands out and "it's such a letter that I should like to comment on today. It's unfortunate that I tan-not reproduce it photographically for you, for a large part of its charm is that it is carefully, even meticulously, handwritten in pencil on the yellow ruled paper we all remember from our school days. It ts date-lined Maplewood school, Sylvania, and reads: Z. "Dear Mr.

Morris: Last week we studied the word It made us think of 'holy' meaning sacred. We would like to know if there is a word meaning the holes in socks, and if so, how is it spelled? Yours truly, Grade 3, Room 21." YES, Grade 3. there Is a word meaning the holes, in socks. It Is spelled "holey." May I commend you on your inquisitiveness and may I add one more word to your store? It is the word "homophone" pronounced HOM-uh-fone. It means a word which sounds Just like another word but means quite different.

The three words "wholly." "holy" and "holey" are homophones. Though they sound alike, they have different meanings. And now I'll wager you're the only third grade in America that knows what a homophona isl 3 XaUaVJ A RECORDING SESSION FOR RECORDING FOR THE BLIND, GETS UNDERWAY WITH, FROM LEFT. MRS. PETER DOMINICK.

CHAIRMAN OF THE DENVER UNIT OF THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER, CLAUDE DAUPHIN AND TELEVISION ACTRESS ANN IURR. rearing and completely cynical work which rates as one -jt the best pictures ao far thia year. Of course the film makes the usual disclaimer of fic- Hon, but I would give anyone who follows radio and TV only one guess, and It wouldn't have to be too educated either, as to who is the The Great Man is never Shown, but his shadow adumbrates the picture from be-- ginning to end with an aura of fear and vlciousness. There are some Juicy, corrosive sketches of charae- ters in the pressure mill of the TV-radio network. ICeenan Wynn is a station manager on the grab for the big ehance, an utter louse.

Dean Jagger is a smooth, unc- tious network president, purring with controlled power and smiling menace. Julie London is an alcoholic thrush, whom 1 She great man kept at his disposal, night and day, as one of tJilt stable. Jim Backus ii a shopworn press agent, Russ -f Morgan a toadying bandleader. A contrast is offered by Ljerrer, weary, cynical and disillusioned, but quite decent (a little more admirable than in the book) and his pert and refreshing secretary (Joanne Gilbert). Ed Wynn, the great eomedian of yesteryear.

In a straight character bit, does a touching and beautifully played scene as the pious and kindly owner of a small-time radio station who gave the Great Man his first job. The movie, although there has been some toning down in the more sordid episodes, is even more graphic than the book. A special improvement is in the ending. In the book it was inconclusive, a sort of Lady and the Tiger ending. The hero took it for granted that he too would become a colossal heel if he took over The Great Man'i mantle I don't know why, necessarily and debated whether it was worth it.

The film's ending is clever, incisive and actually very logical. Horror Fantasy Most recent horror pictures havo rested on making ome creature of gigantic size. "THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN." at the FOX employs a reverse gim law and government for him since 1951 when he was still at Indiana University. He recently wrote: "I have other books for you if you feel you can Increase your work load for me, but I do not want to take an unfair share of your valuable service time." (f 1 Tasty Tricks AT the beginning news of the Recording for the Blind service spread largely by word of mouth. Now through universities, public libraries and various agencies for the blind, more and more students and professional career men and women are learning how to avail themselves of the assistance of this unique organization.

The vinylite discs on which all textbooks and specialized material are recorded can be played on the Library of Congress "Talking Book" machine, which many blind individuals already possess and which is available to all legally blind individuals free of charge. Blind individuals seeking university degrees or professional careers, or other blind men and women ncedins recordings of books in specialized fields, may write to Recording for the Blind, 743 Fifth avenue, New York 22, N. Y. In Missouri, the Recording for the Blind service is used by the St. Louis Bureau for the Blind and by the Division of Welfare In Jefferson City.

mick, making the man tiny victim of normal animals, and with some success. Actually, the film's production values are poor. The acting in the early scenes by two unknowns, Grant Williams as the protagonist and Randy Stuart as his wife, is pretty bad. But screenwriter Richard Matheson has displayed such a fiendish imagination that the picture in its last half has a horrible PLAYING A RECORDING FOR THE BLIND TEXTBOOK DISC ON ONE OF THE SPECIAL LIBRARY OF CON-GRESS TALKING BOOK MACHINES IS LOUISE ROGERS OF TRANSYLVANIA COLLEGE AT LEXINGTON. KY.

SHE IS ONE OF MANY STUDENTS USING THE RECORDINGS IN THEIR COLLEGE STUDIES. Try thla fish hash: eomblna fish with diced potatoes and piquant seasonings. Giro the mixture a little flour and only enough liquid to prevent burning. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT books and special material be recorded for them for use In group activities of the blind as well as by individuals under their supervision. The only national organization furnishing this specialized service to the adult blind, Recording for the Blind does not record books which are available In Braille or among the many thousands of "Talking Books" of the Library of Congress.

Born of a postwar need when a host of blinded returning veterans were entering our colleges under the G.I. Bill of Rights or attempting to resume their interrupted professional careers. Recording for the Blind began with the efforts of a small group of New York women who recognized the necessity of special educational help to these sightless veterans. With the aid of the Women's Council of the New York Public Library, a committee was formed to explore the possibilities of a program meeting the needs of local veterans. So successful was the program evolved that on May 16, 1951, Recording for the Blind was incorporated as a nonprofit institution, and from the privately-endowed Fund for Adult Education received a three-year terminal grant on the condition that the money be used to establish other recording centers throughout the United States.

Today, filling the "textbook gap" between Braille and the Talking Books, Recording for the Blind has some 1000 men and women volunteers working in 10 units throughout the country. Coming from all professions and walks, of life, these volunteers possess varied talents and abilities and enable Recording for the Blind to assign books and material to volunteer readers who are experts in their subject. For instance, in New York a group of young lawyers give freely of their time to record books of law and legal articles. Physicists and scientists, who are among the volunteers of the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) unit, record highly technical works dealing with physics and mathematics. A New York television engineer has just finished recording an electronics textbook and in Detroit, a university professor recently completed the recording of Chaucer'g "Canterbury Tales." The roster of celebrities who have acted as "recording artists" include such personalities as Alistair Cooke, John Mason Brown, Ruth Draper, Robert Montgomery, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Margaret Sullavan, Mildred Dunnock, Ed Begley, Collin Keith Johnston and Ann Burr.

Each year approximately 1000 American school children become totally or partially blind. Of this number many battle their way to an education against almost insurmountable odds and eventually reach institutions of higher learning. "Improved educational techniques and special secondary schools for children without sight are enabling more blind Will Success Spoil Sontag-Kenstan Realty? St. Louis' Fastest Growing New Real Estate Firm Passes $1,000,000.00 Mark. from Alaska, now at the Ta-coma Indian Hospital, has been blind for five or six years as the result of a childhood accident.

As a special student at the Indian Hospital Public School, he is working simultaneously for a high school diploma and a college degree. He uses Recording for the Blind records to bring his educational background up to the level of his intelligence. The books he Is now using range from Einstein's "Relativity" through Darwin's "Origin of the Species" to "Voice and Diction" and "An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method." W. a 26-year-old Negro graduate of Indiana University, is now studying at the New York University School of Law on an Elihu Root-Tilden Scholarship. Recording for the Blind has recorded books on times unqualified for reading works in advanced fields of study and qualified readers are expensive and not always available.

Because textbooks frequently change, agencies for the blind have In the past found it too costly to put any great number of such books into Braille or on recordings. Even today textbooks in Braille are few and far between and while the thousands of Talking Books recorded for the Library of Congress by the American Foundation for the Blind in New York and the American Printing House in Louisville have over the years provided the blind with a constant supply of instructive and entertaining reading matter, talking textbooks were in a field untouched until Becording for the Blind came Into being. It reported that Sontag Ken- itan Realty Corp. St. Loui' ftet trowing new real entnle firm hid fascination.

The unfortunate fellow in question, through a drench-; lug of both insecticide and atomic radiation, finds himself I ahrinklng rapidly in size. When he is so tiny he is living In doll's house, the famijy cat attacks him while his wife Is away. He escapes by falling through a radiator Into the 'Basement, but his wife, in a pretty little scene, finds a small gnawed bone, concludes her beloved has disappeared down the cat's gullet and departs. He then has a battle for survival in the basement, fighting and destroying a black widow spider with a pin for a sword in another grisly acene and dining royally on some stale cake crumbs after being cheated out of the cheese in a mousetrap. These sequences, done with great ingenuity and some good trick photography, are so gruesome as to be downright unpleasant.

When shrinking man gets so minute he can walk out through a basement window screen, you get a neat little homily on man's will to survive and acceptance of his fate in the universe, and a dire hint that If we keep on fooling with atoms we may all end up like this. It certainly teaches you to be kind to insects and other small fauna because some day, who knows? And also to be careful where you atep, because there might be a shrinking man wending his way through the tufts of your carpet. There is also a weak Western on the bill, "GUN FOR A COWARD," with Fred MacMurray, Janice Rule and Jeffrey Hunter. It's not good for much except killing time. Out-of-Town Visitors enough houses to sell to them.

Any persons desiring to sell tlifir house fast should contact Sontsg-Kenslan Realty 559 North South Rd, PArkview 7-1082 at onre. Ask about the new "Free Guar ft panted the $1,000,000.00 mark in residential homes sales sine its formation in September, 1956. As delusive sties agents for Reavis Cardens, a ft selling sub division of custom-built ri ranch houses in the Affton area, tha firm comes in contact with hundreds of proiperliva home buy anteed Selling" plan by which tliera is absolutely no cost to a person who lists their house With Sontag-Kenstan until the house is FIREPLACE FIXTURES Scrtfni Mod lor Any Hnplatt Coll For FREI Iitimofol sold If tlx firm does not 'sell the house you are not out on cent. Till Success spoil Sontag-Kenstan Realty definitely not as they now ar striving towards their second million in home sales. ers each week.

Sontig-Krnstan Realty Corp. has been selling houses so fast that it now finds itself with Lundredi of prospeetiva home buyers and not OF ST. LOUIS 110 S.12TH CH. 1-2041 OPIN SATURDAY MOSNING TV STAR ROBERT MONTGOMERY PREPARES TO MAKE A RECORDING IN THE ORGANIZATION'S NEW YORK HEAD-QUARTERS WHILE MRS. EDWARD TOVREA, CHAIRMAN OF THE PHOENIX (ARIZ.) UNIT LOOKS ON.

students to seek the better opportunities and fuller lives afforded by a college background," Richard Carlson, field director of Recording for the Blind, explains. "But in college the vast amounts of text and reference material which must be digested poses a terrific problem." Until Recording for the Blind came Into being, blind men and women seeking university degrees or professional careers were forced to rely upon family, friends or paid assistants to read aloud to them textbooks or technical works. But relatives and friends, no matter how sympathetic, are some- Always tor Ml 1 Oi I IS Rirmans Fine Qualify A 0 tuT Wlwwiw. v. DIAMONDS By Christopher Billopp ONSIDERATION is the quality shown by persons from I out of town who do not let their friends know in ad- vance, but put up at a hotel.

They assume their friends will be busy with their own affairs. Very lfkely the friends already have a house full of guests and would be embar-rassed if still more people turned up to stay with them. Even if their house is without guests, making room for people for the night will involve rearranging the whole household. It will call for members of the family doubling r. up and causing suffering by putting persons who snore in rooms with persons who are annoyed by snoring.

It will mean resheeting beds and, after the departure of the guests, adding sheets and other bedclothing to the wash to the distress of the laundress. Spending the night will mean altering plans for break-t fast. It will upset the schedule of members of the family who must be off to work or school. Since the guests will have to be entertained, there can be no reading of the at table. Consideration takes into account that all this discom-11 fort and Inconvenience can be avoided by engaging a room a hotel and spending the night there.

That will not in- yolve the shifting of members of the family, the loss of through snoring, extra sheets in the wash and all the ZTtest of the complications associated with putting people up Zllor the night. Therefore, the out-of-town visitors will go to their hotel first, settle down and then call their friends. Let's Explore Your Mind By Dr. E. Wiggtm I II I "shank mod.

rn swirl design, 4k wfcfft orytf. wvr tjoiO. 9V yfllTK THE scope and variety of the books recorded in the past five years is astounding. The list includes specialized works ranging over the whole field of the liberal arts and sciences. Some of the books have been recorded in Spanish, French, German and Latin as well as English.

There are philosophies from Plato to John Dewey and histories from Herodotus to Toynbee. There are books on law ranging from "Constitutional History of England" through a recording of "The Rules of Criminal Procedure for the Courts of Missouri." There are biographies of Ben-venuto Cellini, Abraham Lincoln, Disraeli, Napoleon and Oscar Wilde. Not long ago the "Forrestal Diaries" was recorded on special request. Recording for the Blind has also, on special request, recorded books on politics, pig farming, life Insurance, chiropractic, musicology, child care, newspaper reporting, customs and folklore, and home economics. From all over the United States blind men and women write to Recording for the Blind asking for help in filling their special needs.

The agency asks only that the blind person provide the copy of the book to be recorded and to insure that blind professionals or students are not delayed in their work or studies, records ere mailed out in installments as soon as they are completed. The blind person is at liberty to keep the records as long as he needs them for study. But as diligently as the some 1000 men and women volunteer recorders are, it is not unusual for a work load of 70 to 0 books to accumulate. Recording a book of average size takes approximately 30 hours of reading. For this reason Recording for the Blind is attempting to expand Its organl-ration.

Asking for volunteer contributions to meet this year's estimated budget of $200,000, it hopes to establish more volunteer units around the country, and enlarge its recording facilities. The following cases in the files of Recording for the Blind tell only threa stories of help but the stories might be repeated, with variations, in the case of every one of the hundreds of blind individuals who use this recording service: J. a graduate of Fordham University, is working toward a Masters Degree in the Ford-ham School of Social Science. He has used Recording for the Blind textbook recordings since the early days of the organization and says that without the records he could never have heped for a career in social service work. T.

a 20-year-old Eskimo boy stVTHi WAV YOU HAHPIX XHBjMONEy UVEAL. MOW lV0U APJUSTtTO UFft. WiiK rUE FAUSE. S'if 17 iZ But all the reward they get for their consideration Is indignant friends who protest they are insulted at not being qold. $2 A WEEK mm 4 THESE A SUEE-FIRI WAV TO DISCIPLINE CMILPRENT VOUH ngiNWN rr's foolish fox a uctmek to LIVE ONLY FOIL UN.

CHOREN. FAL6E Large center diamond with four baguettes and six full-cut diamonds In both rings. Tiered mounting with cut-out interlocking wed. ding bond, 14k white or yellow gold. 2 allowed to offer hospitality; that, in fact, they are so in- dignant they are tempted never to speak to the out-of-town visitors again.

Try and Stop Me By Bennett Cerf sr UBE WADDELL was not only one of the greatest south- I Paws DasebaI1 history, but one of its most eccentric and unpredictable characters. Fined $100 by a thor- oughly exasperated manager, Waddell, the picture of Injured innocence, demanded, "What did I do now?" I "The fine," explained the manager, "Is for that dis- graceful hotel episode in Detroit." "You're" crazy!" roared Rube. "There ain't no Hotel I Episode in Detroit." Ihr Hi JERRI BRL'CK is readying a novel about a baseball Umpire named Gibbon for publication about the time the season This Gibbon loses his glasses during a twi- light game at Ebbets Field, spends the rest of his life In a futile search for them, and finally plunges to his death from the second tier of a grandstand in Kansas City. The 'title, of course, will be, "The Decline and Fall of the Roam-tng Umpire." with "money sickness," resulting from a warped attitude toward money. Symptoms take many forms: sleeplessness, back pains, paralysis, headaches, skin troubles, ulcers, anxiety, eccentric behavior.

Dr. Kaufman studied 1000 patients and found that "money is more than a medium of exchange. It is also a symbol with one meaning for you and a different one for the next fellow." Answer to Question 2. According to a noted authority, Dr. Dorothy Baruch in "New Ways in Discipline." find out first how the misbehaving child feels and why he feels as he does.

Unless you change your idea of discipline as punishment Into helpfulness, you're apt to spoil him or fill the child with fear and resentment Answer to Question 1. TRUE. Such mothers are always overprotectlve and possessive. If the children accept her domination, they become dependent, even helpless. Such children are often sly enough to control their mother by sulking, having tantrums, or feigning sickness.

When they grow up and finally leave the nest. Mother finds she hasn't developed other interests and finds herself confronted with a bleak old age. It's a false philosophy of lite; teach your children to get along without you. Answer to Question 2. True.

Culture, religion and personal goals in life all play a part In shaping your feelings about money. Dr. William Kaufman of Bridgeport, says many persons are afflicted A WEEK SPECML TERMS v.o. ssgryMg(y 1 1 1 "fTI i I sort 11 A li rf iiti r-.