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FIRST POLIO SUIT against Cutter Laboratories has been filed by an Oakland, Calif, couple. They charge that their four-year-old boy contracted polio as a result of the company's "negligence and carelessness" in making the vaccine, ask $100,000 damages from Cutter and two drugstores which sold the vaccine...
Despite this, all seemed calm last week at Cutter's 20-acre Berkeley laboratory and at its $1,000,000 Chattanooga hospital solutions plant. The three executive Cutter brothers-Dr. Bob, 57, the president; Executive Vice President Ted, 53 (sales, production); Vice President Fred, 51 (research, controls)-were doing business as usual. Sales were running slightly ahead of last year's $14,850,000. The company had not discharged any of its 1,097 employees, and had, in fact, even added a new biologicals controls building to the 37 others at the Berkeley plant. Said Fred Cutter...
...Cutter Laboratories, born in the backroom of the late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...Grace of God. In the furor Cutter competitors, taking the view that but for the grace of God it might have been they, rallied to the embattled firm. Winthrop-Stearns's President Theodore Klumpp wired: THROUGH YOUR UNEXCELLED PRESTIGE AND REPUTATION I AM CERTAIN IT WILL WORK OUT ALL RIGHT...
Charles Pfizer & Co. offered to fly in some of its own public relations and research staff to help out. One Los Angeles drug chain notified all its doctor customers that it planned to buy only Cutter products when possible, in return received not one complaint. Another drug company president ended his letter: "Bob, I want you to know your friends are with...