Word: helene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town), the sisters gave mothers a six-week, prenatal course at the institute, taught them how to make cribs and look after babies, attended their labor and delivery. By jalopy and on foot, Sister Theophane and Sister Michael (later joined by Sister Patrick and Sister Helen), traveled day & night across the rough desert, often curled up in sleeping bags outside adobe huts while they waited for the baby to come. But there was more to their job than that...
Lost: famed Helen Keller's rural Connecticut home, by fire. One wall was left standing. Miss Keller was expected back from abroad shortly before Christmas...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Helen Traubel as Isolde, Set Svanholm in his: U.S. debut as Tristan...
...Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...
...Helen Hume, no Billie Holiday, but with leanings in that direction, will be the vocalist. Unquestionably the low point of her performance if she decides to sing it will be her specialty "Be-Babba-Leba," one of the favorites currently being sung at the "Show Time...