Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League: Brooklyn 4, Pittsburgh 2, with a homer by Pittsburgh pitcher Lindell; Philadelphia 8, New York 1, with a homer for the Phils by Dol Ennis in the first inning; St. Louis at Milwaukee and Cincinnati at Chicago were rained...
...National League: Brooklyn 8, Pittsburgh 5, with homers for Brooklyn by Campanella and Snider; Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2, homers for Cincinnati by Marshall and Kluszewski; Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2, a homer for Milwaukee by Bruton; New York 4, Philadelphia 1, a New York homer by Thomson...
...University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk, of polio-vaccine fame, reported in the A.M.A. Journal that the technique of preparing killed virus in a mineral-oil suspension (instead of water) works well in influenza vaccines also. His research team, which includes Army medics, said the oil vaccine gives protection against flu for two years (twice as long as the water form) or even longer, and against a larger number of flu-virus strains...
...next 40 weeks or so, Ted Lewis will be asking if everybody is happy in the cities which welcome him back year after year: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and a dozen places in between. He will travel with his own troupe of eleven musicians, a magician, and assorted singers and dancers, and will net himself around $8,000 a week. But everywhere he goes, 61-year-old Ted Lewis will be able to warm up his listeners with reminiscences of the barnstorming days before the going was so good-being booked...
While officials of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sat on the edge of their chairs, Virus Expert Jonas E. Salk of the University of Pittsburgh gave out up-to-date details last week of the vaccine (TIME, Feb. 9) which, it is hoped, can defeat polio. Key points in his review: ¶The virus can be readily cultivated in tissues from monkeys' kidneys. This process gives a higher yield than using monkey testicles (on which earlier experiments were made) and is safer than using brain tissues. ¶After the virus has been killed with formaldehyde, it can still...