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Last week, professional polio fighters decided that the scare campaign had gone too far. Dr. Harry M. Weaver, research director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, declared that false rumors about polio can do more harm than the disease itself. Dr. Weaver stressed the positive gains made in polio research (on which the Foundation has spent almost $11 million, will spend $2,000,000 this year). In fact, these boil down to the knowledge that there are at least three types of polio virus (and possibly several strains of each type), and that the virus is usually transmitted...
Down in the Valley is made to that measure. No scenery is needed, and fewer than a dozen singers, none of whom needs any great vocal range or agility. The story is pathetic enough to sluice any church basement with tears. Brack Weaver loves Jennie Parsons. Her father wants her to pay attention to Thomas Bouché, who has him on a financial hook. Jennie refuses. Bouché pulls a knife on Brack. Brack kills him, is sentenced to death, escapes from jail to spend his last hours with Jennie, then goes dutifully back...
...Club yesterday elected Leonard Wilson, president; Bill Wasserman, treasurer; and Jim Weaver, secretary...
...Instead of laying men off, the mills furloughed men in rotation. For the weeks of furlough, each worker marched over to the unemployment office and drew unemployment pay from the state. (Except for the first layoff each year, Massachusetts does not require a waiting period.) Explained Al Bradstreet, a weaver in American Woolen's Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this to go on, but oh boy, things would really be bad if they just laid...
VARSITY SKIING--Minor H--Gordon Abbott, Jr. '50, Irving L. Fisk '50, Gerald Y. Genn '48, Lawrence L. Griffin '48, Donald K. Justus '50, Skiddy M. Lund '51, Rodger P. Nordblom '50, Graham R. Taylor, Jr. '49, James K. Weaver '51, Manager George L. Seldon...