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...pediatricians heard from an expert a quiet, restrained, but potentially epochal progress report on vaccine research. The speaker was Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr.. chief physician of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, who has been working on a vaccine for measles. Though smallpox, rabies and yellow fever have yielded to vaccines, a dozen or so virus diseases remain to be conquered. Dr. Stokes and his fellow workers may be on the way to victory over most of them, including polio...
...State Department. As boss of the 15-man employee services section of the division of foreign service personnel, Mr. Will has been a sort of Stateside housemother for diplomats. Before a consul or an ambassador goes overseas, Mr. Will arranges for his inoculation against typhoid, yellow fever, bubonic plague. When Mrs. Ambassador wants to insure her mahogany breakfront before shipping it to New Delhi, Mr. Will quotes her rates and advises her on routes. If she wants to stock up on U.S. luxuries, Mr. Will has a list of stores which grant departing diplomatic personnel 20 to 40% discounts...
...developing the vaccines which give immunity to yellow fever (8,000,000 U.S. servicemen took the shots in World War II), Dr. Max Theiler, 52, of the Rockefeller Foundation, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in medicine: a gold medal and $32,357. Born in South Africa, Dr. Theiler has lived 29 years in the U.S. Of the award he said: "It looks as though yellow jack got me the jackpot...
When she took a fever and died, it became plain to Bendrix from her diary (which he stole) that a rival had ousted him. All Bendrix would admit was that he had at last found who his rival was-and transferred his hatred from an unknown man to an unknown...
Before he found his future, at 14, Graham had made serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after swallowing 20 aspirins and jumping into the school swimming pool...