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...Turton announced that Britain has developed a modified Salk vaccine, which will be available this year for 250,000 to 500,000 children aged two to nine. Main difference from the U.S. anti-polio vaccine: substitution of the milder Brunhilde strain of Type I virus for the more virulent Mahoney strain, on the ground that if any live virus slips through, Brunhilde is less likely to cause serious paralysis...
...Mahoney, 38, a rewrite man who has worked for the New York Daily Mirror for nearly 22 years. He denied present membership in the party or that he had ever performed "any subversive act," but refused to testify whether he had ever been a Communist. Next day Hearst's Mirror fired Mahoney...
...committee system can move fast when it has to: for example, after the laments of a few G.M. dealers were widely publicized in the hearings before Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney last month (TIME, Dec. 12), Curtice and the Operations Policy Committee went into session one Sunday, came out that evening with a far-reaching decision to extend all G.M. dealers' contracts from one to five years. This also indicated how the committee system can put pressure on Curtice. He thought that the complaints of dealers were exaggerated, that he did not have...
There were more smiles as the hearings dragged through their fifth week, and the smoke-filled, green-walled hearing room took on an air of a gentlemen's club. To rambling Joe O'Mahoney, Curtice became "Red." To carefully tailored Harlow Curtice, O'Mahoney became "Senator...
...week's end the hearings has almost petered out. The platoon of G.M. brass gathered up their papers and went home, leaving assistants to clean up odds and ends of testimony over the next few weeks. What had O'Mahoney accomplished? The hearings showed that G.M. executives did their homework before they took the stand, that they freely cooperated with the committee, and that they ran a highly efficient business. While some of G.M.'s 17,000 dealers were clearly sore, the records proved that even they had done very well. Quipped one newsman...