Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconded the nomination of Earl Warren), was nominated as the Republican candidate for the state senate, where no woman has ever served. A former model and fashion writer, Mrs. Younger is the wife of Municipal Judge Evelle Younger, has a ten-year-old son. (A second son died of polio in 1947; Mrs. Younger herself survived a nine-month siege of polio in 1951.) She believes she won the primary on "a moral issue." The man she defeated: State Senator Jack Tenney, onetime chairman of the California Un-American Activities Committee, the violently anti-Semitic 1952 vice-presidential candidate...
...instance, the President related, a little girl (Sandra Miskelly, 18, of Keene, N.H.) took very great pleasure recently in coming to his office. Two years ago, when she had a date to see the White House, she was stricken with polio. In her determination to walk again, to fulfill that date, she had both legs broken. In that long two-year struggle she had had operations on her hands and her feet and her legs, but she finally got to the White House...
...second-graders trooped to the inoculation room in McLean, Va., Randall Kerr, 6, was where he had begged to be: at the head of the line. He was not only the first in Fairfax County, but the first child in the nation inoculated in the mass trials of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29). Randy, like the rest of the Virginia kids, knew that he was getting real vaccine. (In a dozen states, half the children are being given an inert control substance.) Randy's comment: "I could hardly feel it. It hurt...
Long, tedious manufacturing and testing the vaccine for safety had delayed the trials so that in some areas they had to be canceled. In the Atlanta district, where plans had been well made in advance (TIME, April 26), two cases of polio, one of them paralytic, had appeared unseasonably early, and no vaccinations can be given where the disease has already begun its annual upswing. Other areas were certain to be similarly hit. Milwaukee decided to drop out because local health officers wanted to wait so long-to see how things go elsewhere-that there would be no time...
Gamma globulin, Enders said also provides antibodies against polio, but in a passive way. Whereas the new vaccine presumably help a person to develop his own antibodies, gamma globulin only provides ready-made antibodies, he stated...