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...wiser decisions. The truly atrocious spots which earlier had marked the production have been shuffled off the stage: the opening half-hour is now a pleasing burst of song, not a dirge; and the cumbersome sketches have been pared to size. Through their expert cutting and repasting, Gross-Charnas-Weller have produced a musical of well-paced comedy and song. Great to Be Back! has become possible to enjoy and possible to recommend...
...Weller, it seemed to me, does double duty, since the songs carry the show, and Weller's lyrics carry the songs. "We Want to Be Treated Like Women Again"--the number which shows Sheila Tobias off to best advantage--"To the Manor Born," "Happy Ending" and those already mentioned, are each cleverly concocted without being contrived. Charles Gross has proved himself equally talented on past occasions; this time, his music is adequate, sometimes less, never more...
...statement of Francis' report made last night, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis paid tribute to the work done at the University in 1949 by Enders, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Health at the School of the Public Health, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, a former associate of Enders and Weller, who is now at Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School...
...Salk and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh have earned the right to lead the parade, which started to move when the Harvard trio of Enders, Weller, and Robbins found a non-nervous tissue in which the viruses could grow. But the other marchers at universities, foundations, hospitals and laboratories throughout the world have also merited a place in the ranks. They, along with the people who donated "dimes and dollars," have accomplished a miracle with ten million dollars--the price of ten jet planes...
...University scientists, John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on polio vaccine, and soon afterwards Enders announced that he was near success on a vaccine for measles...