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...Salk Story...
Detracting nothing from honors rightfully deserved by Dr. Salk [April 25], how about thanks to the little guys with sore left arms and their predecessors, "the stuck west-ends," without whose help the great doctor might not have succeeded so well and so fast...
...nationwide program of vaccination against polio, so eagerly awaited for so many years, so recently greeted with clarion calls of hope, ground this week to a sickening halt. The U.S. Public Health Service recommended (and all states were virtually certain to comply) that use of the Salk vaccine be postponed until it can "reappraise" the vaccine now on hand. This includes 1) vaccine shipped to public authorities and now in their refrigerators (enough for 4,000,000 or more shots), plus 2) a similar amount still in the manufacturers' vats...
...encouraging announcement that the Salk vaccine will be released again tomorrow is shadowed by the Health Department's continuing refusal to take steps toward a sensible nationally-controlled distribution of the vaccine. Despite all the confusion and delay of the past two weeks, inoculations will be resumed under the same "voluntary" system which has patently proven to be no system...
Interrupted Melody (M-G-M). The Salk vaccine, which prevents infantile paralysis, will probably bring out, in reaction, a low-grade rash of films like this one. If ignored, they will go away. Based on the autobiography of Marjorie Lawrence, the Metropolitan Opera star who was stricken with the disease in 1941 but came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from...