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Show Sight Restored After 20 Years, Changes Awe Him New York. "I don't know what to say or do," said Jacob Lieberman. "I couldn't be happier with millions." He had groped in darkness for 20 years blind. At eighty-seven years old, it seemed that he would never see sunshine, trees, and faces again. Then surgeons operated on his eyes in the home of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. His eyes were bandaged ban-daged for days. Finally they were uncovered. He blinked and smiled. "I see!" he exclaimed. Years seemed to fall away from Jacob Lieberman after that. He looked younger, happier. Friends he had known only by their voices became be-came visible. He looked at himself In the mirror and laughed. For the first time he saw his snow-white hair and beard. He was proud of his military mili-tary carriage, still retained, a reminder re-minder of service In the Russian army. For the first time In 20 years he lighted his own cigarette. Downstairs he walked unfalteringly and came out Into a world he had not seen for a fifth of a century. He smiled joyously at trees showing new leaves, but he was amazed at the traffic, the higher buildings, new-type cars, and transformed streets. Back at home, he took a bath unaided un-aided and put on a new suit. "I am richer than Rockefeller," he said. |