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...George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, yesterday backed Health Secretary Marion Folsom's stand in opposing increased federal aid for medical research at this time. Folsom had testified last week that medical school facilities were presently inadequate to train specialists for additional research programs...
...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...
Justice for Negroes is hard to come by in Alabama though, and a solution for the problem defies everyone but the cloistered idealist. Battle lines are drawn, and only sensitive hands can avoid pulling the hair trigger. Many doubt that Alabama's governor, James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, has the required delicacy. Nonetheless, the Governor has taken a step which is in itself encouraging. By calling for a biracial commission to study race relations throughout the state, Folsom has provided a means for sane communication between Negro and white leaders. Lack of communication is a fundamental cause of misunderstanding...
...soft-spoken Hoosier settled down in an incompletely furnished office in Washington's Health, Education and Welfare Department last week to tackle a big job. As special assistant (to Secretary Marion Folsom) for health and medical affairs, Dr. Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall, 55, has a roving commission, but his special concerns are improving research, financing medical education and making hospital care simpler and cheaper...
With this allegory, Dr. Jonas Salk last week sought to turn the nation's thanks toward the many scientists who had worked on polio vaccine before him The occasion: award to Salk, by Health Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, of a specially minted congressional gold medal to honor his "great achievement" in developing the Salk polio vaccine...