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Most of the U.S. has shown a gratifying decline in paralytic poliomyelitis this year, but Rhode Island has a polio epidemic: So cases with five deaths since June 8. The Navy captain was Iowa-born Edward Abel Anderson, 47, who wears the Medical Corps' insigne above the four stripes on his shoulder boards. His "gun" was a Hypospray injector made by Detroit's R. P. Scherer Corp., modified to meet Dr. Anderson's suggestions. His ammunition was Salk vaccine...
...G.O.P. gubernatorial primary was uncontested: Michigan's often split Republicans united behind a single candidate, articulate Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, 46. Overcoming a severe attack of paralytic polio, Bagwell became, at 29, Michigan State's youngest professor and, simultaneously, its youngest department head (speech, radio and dramatics). He ran for Governor against Soapy Williams in 1958 and, though it was a Democratic year almost everywhere else, polled a surprisingly strong 1,073,000 votes to Williams' 1,212,000. His showing helped convince Soapy that six terms was enough...
...Zinsser Influence. John Franklin Enders, 63, got interested in the viruses of polio and measles as the result of a series of fortunate fortuities. Son of a Hartford, Conn, banker who left $19 million, Enders had his B.A. ('19) from Yale and M.A. ('22) from Harvard, was well on the way to a Ph.D. and a teaching career in English when a friend exposed him to Harvard's late great Microbiologist Hans Zinsser, author of Rats, Lice and History. Enders switched to microbiology, took his Ph.D. in it ('30), settled down to teaching and research...
...while his lab was partly financed by a grant from the National Foundation, Enders took a flyer in polio virus culture. With Drs. Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, he found a way to grow the virus so that a safe vaccine could be made. For this work, on which the Salk and all later polio vaccines are based, the trio got a 1954 Nobel Prize. Harvard recognized Dr. Enders' greatness by naming him a full professor in 1956. Perpetual Fame. In 1953 Enders asked Dr. Thomas Peebles, assistant in his lab at Children's Hospital in Boston, whether...
...fact that no new case of paralytic polio has developed in Dade County since May 3 is encouraging. In previous years, even since Salk, there have been as many as half a dozen. "On the surface," says a PHS epidemiologist, "the vaccine appears safe and efficient. But vaccines are supposed to prevent polio, and we won't know whether this one has done so until the end of the season...