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NO medical preparation has been launched on its lifesaving career under a more brilliant spotlight than the Salk vaccine against paralytic polio. This very glare has made it harder for some to see certain essential facts-the vaccine is not always effective, and its potency is not assured. Now Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

This was the word last week at a University of Michigan symposium with which the National Foundation launched its 1959 March of Dimes. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk was more frank than ever before in conceding the ineffectiveness of an unspecified proportion of the commercial vaccine released, and contrasting it with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Calling the Shots | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

The National Foundation could tick off a substantial victory in its battle against polio. In the U.S. this year there have been 913 cases of polio reported, as against 1,979 at this time last year. But 438 of this year's cases have been specified as paralytic, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Foundation Fight | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Cott's WNTA-TV began with a wallop. It offered quality films (The Snake Pit, Laura) three nights a week, showed them on a movie theater's continuous-program basis from 7:30 to 12:30, which let the viewer pick his time and go to bed early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Voice on Channel 13 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

At the height of his fame, poor Jonas poses for a portrait of the artist at work, but he himself no longer has the time or spirit to paint. Cognac consoles him with the illusion of creativity, and girls with the illusion of vitality. After that, Jonas' decline is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six -from Camus | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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