Word: polio
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Baylor University's Dr. John Knox is convinced that if as much money were put into syphilis research as went into research on polio - which did not kill or cripple as many people - a vaccine could be found in a few years. But the spirochete of human syphilis is a maddening germ that refuses to grow in the test tube or in most animals. And syphilis research is under way at only four or five U.S. medical centers...
Exposure Problem. Perlman is a polio victim. He hobbles onto the stage on crutches and plays sitting down. He was stricken with the disease when he was four and lived for one year in bed with his violin. As soon as he was able to get around, he entered music school. At 13, he won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, where he has been a student ever since. His parents, Zionist pioneers who came to Israel in the 1930s, moved to New York City with him. His father now folds shirts in a Manhattan laundry...
Scenes of Roosevelt's summer home on Campobello Island are delightfully period piece, full of shots of Roosevelt in his most informal hours-that is, with his jacket off, perhaps, but never his tie. But when the moment arrives to say that F.D.R. suffered his attack of polio there, lightning flashes in the sky, grey horses standing in the pasture neigh with terror, and ominously choppy waters are shown in whipping rain. The narrator tells how Roosevelt, on the day he fell sick, became overheated fighting a brush fire, and the producers stage a brush fire to illustrate. F.D.R...
...more victory for F.D.R. His warmth, his charm, his wit and his arrogance are everywhere in the pictures of him. When the raw material is left alone, it is most eloquent. There is, for instance, a splendid home-movie clip of a dozen or so of his fellow polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light cruiser. He stands importantly at the head of the gangway...
...CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett as a polio victim bent on suicide...