Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salk Vaccine was approved for use in Massachusetts by the State Committee on Polio Vaccine last night after a six and one-half hour meeting at the State House...
...Committee, whose membership includes John Fe. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and Thoman H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, winners of the 1954 Nobel Prize for their work in growing the polio virus, did not give the vaccine its unqualified support. The report, read to the press last night by Samuel B. Kirkwood, clinical professor of Maternal Health and State Public Health Commissioner, said "the vaccine is very definitely in the developmental stage," and that it might be possible "in rare instances" for live virus in the vaccine to induce the disease...
...telling the leaders how to follow a trail, how to build a fire, how to treat blisters, burns and snakebites. Most of them have learned to identify trees and to tell directions in the woods. Although many of the physically handicapped are confined to wheelchairs with cerebral palsy, polio, arthritis or paraplegia, they have proved remarkably adept at mastering certain basic normal skills, e.g., tying knots, which some of the boys can do only by using their teeth. The mentally retarded boys have learned the simpler stages of first aid, how to build a fire in the open, and hobbies...
...Scouting program, their interest in what they are studying invariably picks up. "It has given my boy a desire to live and to do different things," says Mrs. R. W. Pope, whose 16-year-old son spends much of his time in a respirator as a result of polio. Adds another mother: "The main thing he has learned is that he is not forgotten, that he can do things that other boys do. You can see it in his eyes...
...Unfinished Melody, about the life of onetime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, Soprano Farrell went to Hollywood to dub in her voice (the part was played by Cinemactress Eleanor Parker). Singer Farrell displayed all the instincts of a born vaudevillian. Says she: "When Lawrence drops to the stage with polio while singing the Liebestod, I sang with frogs in my throat because she wasn't feeling well, and then I cracked at the end when she falls down. Can I crack at will...