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...hope I am neither the first nor the last to nominate Dr. Jonas Salk for your Man of the Year...
...across the U.S., the needles were flashing, arms were stinging, and the lollipop business was booming. In and around Atlanta last week, 18,301 youngsters in the first and second grades got the Salk polio vaccine provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In Dallas it was 59,000 youngsters in the first four grades. In hundreds of counties along or near the U.S.'s southern border, where the 1955 polio season is starting, there was the same bustle. Los Angeles and San Francisco also got in under the wire, but the rest of the country was still...
Microbes could be happy if biologists thrived on publicity alone. For scientists can exterminate diseases only through tedious refinements, long after public attention has turned form such striking discoveries as the Salk vaccine. Although the vaccine still leaves 15-20 percent unprotected, the public is already beginning to think of polio as a "disease of the past...
...public attention is fickle, it is by no means frivolous. The March of Dimes collected millions, carrying polio research through the most expensive part of its job. Dr. Salk, of course, feels that he must continue research to perfect his vaccine. If the U.S. Public Health Service supports his work, as it certainly should, then the March of Dimes organization should mobilize to conquer some other dread disease...
Drama is the forte of the March of Dimes. While the organization can hardly expect to dramatize the slow and careful final work on Salk vaccine, it can easily bring the tragedy of leukemia, rheumatic fever, or some other disease to the hearts of the people. Responding in this appeal in their generous and sympathetic manner, Americans can help the March of Dimes conquer another health menace...