Word: virologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement that Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Division of the Dow Chemical Co. has now begun to market a one-shot vaccine that is expected to give lifelong immunity. The virus used in the new vaccine is derived from the famed Edmonston strain used by Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John F. Enders (TIME Cover, Nov. 17, 1961), but new research has added many advantages. When the attenuated virus in Enders' vaccine remained strong enough to give the required immunity, it was also strong enough to give many children what amounted to a slight case of measles, with a mild rash...
...Christopher Andrewes has spent most of his virologist's life studying the ailment, and in a new book just published in London, The Common Cold (Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 25 s.), Andrewes sums up what is known about the disease. He concludes that even the name is dubious. "That it is common admits of no dispute. But why cold? Is it because we feel chilly when we have a cold or because chilling brings it on (or is supposed to do so) or because the infection is commoner during the cold time of the year...
Health & Personality. The drama began with the terms Happy accepted 18 months ago as a price for her divorce from her virologist husband. Then, in proceedings behind closed doors in an Idaho court and with a sealed agreement, she relinquished custody of the children. She was obviously aware that as long as she was happily remarried, while Dr. Murphy remained unmarried, neither public opinion nor the law would view sympathetically any effort to take the children away from...
...last week the courtroom drama of Rockefeller v. Murphy unfolded be hind closed doors in White Plains, N.Y. Only the disputants knew just why Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller yielded custody of her four children - James, 13; Margaretta, 11; Carol, 8; and Melinda, 4-to Virologist James S. Murphy when she divorced him in Idaho last year. The public knew only that "Happy" was now demanding custody and that Dr. Murphy, himself recently remarried to a pretty former teacher of his children, was unwilling to give...
...last week, but Vickie muttered, "I can't talk about that" and hurried away. About what? Well, what that happy band of Rocky boosters on the Coast keeps gloating about: they say that on June 10 Victoria will marry Dr. James Slater Murphy, 42, the suave Manhattan virologist who was Happy Rockefeller's first husband...