Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible dangers of being vaccinated against polio, and the opposite dangers of not being vaccinated, both became legal issues last week. ¶ Palmer Lee Martin, 41, filed a $300,000 damage suit in Atlanta against the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and their Atlanta distributors, charging that he caught poliomyelitis from his son, who developed the disease a week following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit...
...Andrea Doria. Aboard and reported killed in the crash with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent report of the tragedy from the viewpoint of an anonymous "person who had relatives aboard." Next day, when Linda proved incredibly to have been hurled to safety in the Stockholm's jagged prow...
...Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed, and a garbled account of Cushing's plan was reported in Northern newspapers before he set out. With 14 men in a motor launch armed with a torpedo, plus a diversionary crew of 13 in a cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated the river and revealed that the ironclad was newly protected against torpedo attack by a boom of logs that surrounded the vessel...
John Richardson '08 of Boston and George E. Hale of Chicago were named national vice chairmen to succeed R. Ammi Cutter '22, who has been appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Richardson will handle gifts from graduates of classes prior to 1926, and Hale will handle donations from later classes...
...When it came to pork, many a budget-cutter squealed in anguish. A delegation of Georgia businessmen arrived in Washington to demand that their Congressmen vote wholesale economies, only to be asked if they thought appropriations for Georgia projects should be knocked out. "Oh no," cried one. "We want you to cut the hell out of everybody but us." In San Francisco the Chamber of Commerce issued a resounding call for budget slashes. What about the proposed $45 million federal courthouse in San Francisco? Snapped a Chamber of Commerce official: "We don't consider this pork-barreling...