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What with the Salk vaccine and the surge into space, the cold war, the compact car, and the thousand and one triumphs and follies that enlivened the decade, our artist couldn't begin to cover it all. But as we move into a new decade of news, we've enjoyed recalling many of the faces of the Fifties in this crowded tapestry -and we thought you might...
...inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with the National Foundation, many reported cases of paralytic polio after Salk vaccinations are probably not polio at all, but Coxsackie...
Died. Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, 89, spare, retiring biologist who pioneered (1907) in growing cells independent of the organism from which they were taken, stimulated a pupil, Dr. John Enders, to use the same tissue-culture method to grow a polio virus (1949) that led to the Salk vaccine, taught biology and zoology (1907-38) at Yale; in New Haven, Conn...
...nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273 paralytic) the week before. Totals for the year to date: 5,520 cases, 3,400 of them paralytic, an increase of 83% from...
...developer of polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk-Townsend Harris High School, New York City...