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...freeze hit Atlanta last week, signaling the approach of the annual low point in polio infection, the U.S. Public Health Service called its committee on poliomyelitis control into session there to plan for the spring and summer campaign when the disease attacks again. Hostilities promptly broke out within the council of war itself, mainly over the relative merits of the Salk injected and the Sabin oral vaccines. The chief antagonists were the National Foundation's crusty perennial chairman, Basil O'Connor, and the University of Cincinnati's inventive, acidulous Dr. Albert B. Sabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Imbroglio | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

Certainly one of your selections should have been displaced by Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of one of the greatest humanitarian gifts to the world in many years-an orally administered vaccine for polio. Does he not rank somewhere in the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 20, 1961 | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

Cancer, too, is a target of molecular biology. Harvard's Dr. John Enders, a virologist whose tissue cultures made polio vaccine possible, believes that some cancers in lower animals are certainly caused by viruses. "Recent work has shown," he says, "that malignant cells that develop after infection by a virus do not necessarily continue to hold the virus. They lose the virus but continue to grow, and can pass cells to other animals without the virus' being present. It looks as if the function of the virus is to start the cell going wrong. Then it can continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: Men of the Year: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...results of research. "As a rule, the scientist takes off from the manifold observations of his predecessors . . . The one who places the last stone and steps across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit." Thus Dr. Jonas Salk got most of the credit for developing polio vaccine. But it was Enders' patient work that first demonstrated how to grow the dangerous polio virus in other than nerve tissue. That work got Enders and his associates a Nobel Prize; it got Salk his vaccine. Now active at Boston's Children's Medical Center, John Enders is presently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE MEN ON THE COVER: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Dore Schary's film version of his Broadway success develops Franklin Roosevelt's ordeal by polio into a superior drama that is also a superb soap opera-and one of the year's shrewder pieces of political propaganda. Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson make wonderful theater out of Franklin and Eleanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST PICTURES OF I960 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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