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...gamma globulin in prevaccine days and then developed a paralytic disease that was mistaken for polio, they now suggest that the guilty viruses were of the Coxsackie group (named for the Hudson Valley town where the first one was isolated) or the ECHO group (named for enteric cytopathogenic human orphan). Concludes the A.M.A.: Viruses probably also have been responsible for some post-vaccination cases of paralysis, which therefore were not polio...
...cliche after another. Family life is that way. When we're corny, we don't let it get too far. We use what I call treacle cutters. For instance, the boy gets sore and runs away from home and tries to enroll himself in the orphan asylum as Elvis Earp. I find him and I take him in my arms and we make up and we talk about how we're going to go out and get doubledeck hamburgers and big malted milks and then we'll go to the movies and then...
SEVEN UP, 16, is an orphan from South Carolina, lives, at the moment, with an elderly aunt who is on relief. Essentially illiterate, he is looked after by no one, says Salisbury, "and no one except his fellow gang members cares...
...girls should be. She decided that adolescents are "the youngsters who are least understood and who need guidance most. Everyone loves to play with a cute and docile baby, but teen-agers are too often unwanted." Last fall Mother Mary welcomed to Girls' Town 16 ragged, frightened orphan girls from institutions all over Italy. They looked in wonder at the pink exterior walls, the brightly painted rooms ("Colored paint costs no more than white, and it's much more cheerful"). One girl exclaimed at the sight of a mirror on the wall: "We were never allowed mirrors...
Emotional I O Us. To begin with-as Author Maurois has diligently discovered -Miss Howard was not, as she said, an "orphan" from Dover named Harriet Howard. She was Elizabeth Ann Haryett, daughter of a Brighton bootmaker. Seduced at 15 by a jockey named Jem, she became an excellent horsewoman and later an actress at London's Haymarket Theater. At 18 she became the mistress of a wealthy Guards officer, who poured a fortune into her purse. At 19 she bore him a son. When she took the infant to be baptized, she named her own father and mother...