Helen Keller To Tour Middle East - Helen Keller (Rt) and her companion, Polly Thompson, about to board their plane at Idleviild Airport, New York for Cairo at the start of Miss Keller's tour. Helen Keller, one of the world,s outstanding women, is to tour the middle east during the next three months. During her tour the blind authoress will plead for education, training and employment opportunities for the 320,000 blind persons in the middle east. April 18, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper).