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General Mark Clark, suffering from ear trouble in Chicago, canceled a northwestern trip, hustled back to Washington, D.C., for treatment...
Most Canadian children will trudge back to school next week, but in 40 isolated hamlets in northwestern Ontario, pupils will wait for school to come to them. Reason: they attend schools on wheels...
...Kabat is convinced that most spastics can be helped (although curing them is impossible). He first got on the track of spastic therapy when he worked with Sister Elizabeth Kenny (see below) at the University of Minnesota in 1942. Kabat, a boy wonder who got his Ph.D. from Northwestern at 22, was then an instructor in physiology. He discovered that prostigmine, which had been used chiefly to relieve post-operational gas pains, relieved muscular and nervous tension in polio victims, helped physical therapy to create new habit patterns...
...rest will be retired from active service. Six will be manned with enough personnel to keep their facilities ready for use as soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...
...plane the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis packed off a special "polio team" headed by Dr. David Steven Grice of Harvard. With him were a Yale epidemiologist, Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann, an orthopedic nurse and four physiotherapists. Three other "flying squads" of polio experts have been recruited at Northwestern, Stanford and the D. T. Watson School of Physiotherapy, to speed to the scene of any outbreak on two hours' notice...