Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloom. There is little that is gloomy or institutional about the camp. Sports are encouraged but never forced. A boy in a wheelchair is pitcher in a softball game; another on crutches plays first base. Most popular sport: swimming, with "hiking"-on crutches or in wheelchairs-a close second. The $80 cost per child [for a two-week stay] is split between the state association and the child's family or sponsor. The beneficial effects of these investments are soon apparent...
...Pauline Schleifer, 10, was stricken with polio only seven months ago. Encumbered by a huge, white leather neck brace, she walked quietly about by herself until she found company: another girl, confined to a wheelchair, whom she could help...
...cover his arrival. As the newsfronts keep shifting in this hot war, Mecklin moves with them. His beat has taken him into the Red River Delta, eastward to the South China Sea, westward into the remote villages of Laos. He has traveled by cyclo (a kind of bicycle wheelchair), by jeep, C-47-and on foot...
What makes Toledano's sudden success all the more surprising is that he is unable to stir from his wheelchair. An accident at birth seriously injured his central nervous system. He has extreme difficulty speaking and only limited control of his arms and hands. But with brain and eyes unimpaired, Toledano got a good education from tutors, became a voracious reader. In his early years Toledano hoped to become a writer; later he dabbled in sketching. In 1952, when he was 42, he produced a cartoon lampooning Presidential Candidate Eisenhower that the Democrats blew up for a Madison Square...
...Evolution of Football as Yale" is an uninspiring transition cartoon showing player, official, and spectator in three phases since 1893. While Updike's cartoons bolster some pieces, the sketch of "Peanuts" in his wheelchair adds little to that story...