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IRWIN'S BLIND WORK CITED

Saturday Review Extols Him as Second only to Louis Braille

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The work of Robert B. Irwin (M.A. Harvard '07), the sightless Executive director of the American Foundation for the Blind, was noted in a page-long editorial in the Saturday Review of Literature called "Writ in Sound."

Irwin, the Review said, is next to Louis Braille as a benefactor to the blind. It was Irwin who succeeded in bringing literature to the blind through the medium of photographic discs known as talking books. He made the books for finger-reading both less cumbersome and less costly by half.

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