Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lack of funds has forced the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to slash emergency aid to polio patients, reported President Basil O'Connor. The $200,000 doled out last week "represents money 'borrowed' from funds committed to re search and education." To meet the short age, there will be an emergency March of Dimes next week...
Cullen credits most of his good luck to a disaster that struck him at the age of 18 months. A polio attack left him with a permanent limp. Always drama-minded, Bill decided that radio "was the one place that a ham like me-and, believe me, I'm a ham-could limp and still get a job." He started as an unpaid announcer at Pittsburgh's station WWSW. Within five years, he was getting $300 a week. In 1944, he headed for New York and CBS: "But I don't kid myself. All the good announcers...
...Theodore Greene, 57, who started teaching at the Forman Christian College in what is now Pakistan, later joined the faculty of Princeton, and finally, after a severe bout with polio, was appointed professor of philosophy at Yale. Since then he has become one of the brightest ornaments of his campus-a courtly scholar who each day painfully makes his way to class and there becomes the eloquent defender of liberal education at its best. His oft-taught belief: "The objective reality of beauty and its concrete embodiments, of goodness and its impact on human life, of God and His relation...
...Mollycoddling. Camp Wawbeek, a typical camp in the group, has 80 children, aged 8 to 14 (to be replaced later in the summer by adults and older children). Half of them are polio victims, 16 have cerebral palsy, eight have muscular dystrophy, and the rest suffer from a variety of crippling ailments. Special care was taken in constructing new buildings: all but one are flush with the ground, doors are wider than normal to accommodate wheelchairs and spraddled crutches, there are railings along porches and in bathrooms. Showers, too, are adjustable for children in wheelchairs...
...Pauline Schleifer, 10, was stricken with polio only seven months ago. Encumbered by a huge, white leather neck brace, she walked quietly about by herself until she found company: another girl, confined to a wheelchair, whom she could help...