Word: phippses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The experts had just pronounced the Salk anti-polio vaccine both safe and effective. Three years ago, University of California Psychologist Robert M. Gottsdanker was delighted when he succeeded in getting one of the first shots for daughter Anne Elizabeth," 5. Equally happy was Engineer Charles Phipps of Monrovia (near...
Within a fortnight, the joy gave way to anguish. The Gottsdanker and Phipps youngsters, like 77 others inoculated with vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories, came down with polio.* Live virus was found in six (of 17) Cutter vaccine batches. The U.S. Public Health Service reached the "presumption...
...vaccine? Was there live virus in the vaccine? If so, was Cutter negligent in letting it get through? Was there, with every ampoule of vaccine, an "implied warranty" that the preparation was safe? On their answers hung suits for $300,000 by the Gottsdankers, $65,000 by the Phippses...
The brother act was bred to the sport in the fox-hunting country around Monkton, Md. Like their father, who came from the green Irish horse county of Kilkenny, they were earning their living as show-horse trainers while in their teens. In 1950 some friends bought them an Irish...
Among other horses, the Phipps stable had Neji. But the top jumper of 1955 had pulled up lame after the Midsummer Hurdle Handicap of 1956 and seemed to be through with racing. It took all Mike's talents to make the horse whole. This year his perseverance, combined with...