Lawrence Richard Jones, 6, who left Australia two years ago, "incurably" deaf and dumb, arrived by plane from America today, able to carry on a normal conversation. Lawrence is still deaf, but he has been taught to lip read and speak in two years at the Central Institute, St. Louis, one of the most advanced schools of its kind in the world. Lawrence now speaks with an easy, short, clipped accent, similar to that of an English public schoolboy. August 21, 1947.