Tomorrow, Jacob Lieberman, the only “sighted” resident in the Yonkers Home of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, will be “man-about-town-for-a-day.” It will be a day of triple significance for him; for tomorrow Lieberman will celebrate his ninetieth birthday, the third anniversary of the ##covery of his eyesight after 20 ###ars of blindness, and, while he ### in the spirit, will observe the twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the guild, which falls on Friday.
Attired in his best, he will take leave of his friends at the Home in Yonkers at 12:30 p. m., and sally forth on his day of adventure. He will carry with him the special blessings of “Grandpa” Joshua Finkelstein, the Home’s venerable patriarch who is round-
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