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...Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage, Inc. As for Founder Cayley, she has become a practicing psychiatrist, although still confined to a wheelchair, and at 53 is busier than ever. She now drives her own car, leads an active social life. Once the women's long-distance swimming champion of Hungary, she can still swim a three-quarter-mile-wide lake. Says she: "It's not the degree of disability that...
...critic named J. G. Quiggin and a liberal named Mark Members, two broke and brilliant university men who symbolize the United Front. They contend for the job as secretary to a rich, vain novelist of inflated reputation. Quiggin, the Marxist, wins, and triumphantly trundles the senile genius in his wheelchair at the head of a workers' demonstration in Hyde Park...
Muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known, has a way of attacking families. George Anderson of Metuchen, N.J. watched his two teen-age brothers die from the disease. Confined to a wheelchair since the age of seven, George nevertheless determined not to let the disease destroy his life. He studied at home, last June got a diploma from the Metuchen high school. He became a TV and Brooklyn Dodger fan, took up water-coloring. George fought so hard to live that his parents and his three sisters (none of whom seem...
...Orson Welles was completely crippled. Having broken his left ankle just before the opening, he sprained the right one immediately after it. Despite poor notices, Manhattan's City Center was packed when the second-night curtain rang up and Welles was rolled out in a wheelchair, one foot encased in a plaster cast, the other swathed in bandages. At 40, and weighing 260 Ibs., the heavy-jowled "boy wonder'' no longer looked like a precocious cherub, but he quickly demonstrated that he had not lost his showmanship...
Welles finished the week playing Lear to a full house. He was dressed and made up for the part, but did it all from his wheelchair. The audience loved...