Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Basil O'Connor announced the decision that had become an ill-kept secret (TIME, July 21), the foundation was accused of claim jumping on an area already staked out and actively worked by another group, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. Also headquartered in Manhattan, it has Industrialist Floyd B. Odium as chairman and World War II's brush-cut General George C. Kenney as president. Founded in 1948, it has raised progressively larger amounts in annual fund drives, took in almost $3,000,000 last winter...
Chairman Odium (an arthritis victim himself) wrote O'Connor in January of 1957 suggesting that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation merge for an all-out attack on rheumatic diseases. Through last spring, committees of the two foundations met to hammer out terms, but could not agree. Main reasons: the A. & R. F. allows its local chapters wide autonomy, lets them raise funds independently or through United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive...
...long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted one drug company's research director: "I have the greatest spy service in the Western Hemisphere. We scout people all the time. It's a dangerous game, but the stakes are high...
Over the neat signature of Lawyer Basil O'Connor, 66, its first and perennial president (since 1938), the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sent out word last week that it will soon make "the first announcement of our plans" for a new program-now that victory over paralytic poliomyelitis has been substantially achieved. The plans, said O'Connor, "have been many years in the making." He might have added that ever since the Salk vaccine, developed with N.F.I.P. funds, was recognized as a weapon capable of preventing the worst ravages of polio, the roar of speculation about what...
...Connor's well-laid and supposedly secret plans had leaked in widening Manhattan medical circles. The marching dimes will right wheel. From facing an infectious disease and its complications, they will turn to attack arthritis and malformations that are present at birth. Though utterly different in origin, these disorders have something in common with paralytic polio-they cause long-term if not lifelong disablement, require vast sums for costly care of helpless victims. The N.F.I.P. sees these targets as first of a series, hopes to conquer them by the same blitz tactics that it used against polio, then move...