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Just as the Public Health Service was using one hand last week to press the starter button and get the stalled polio vaccine program running again, one of its spokesmen disclosed how close the U.S. had been to unimaginable disaster. Dr. William H. Sebrell Jr., director of the PHS's National Institutes of Health, testifying before a House committee, in effect answered the question that for a month had haunted U.S. parents: was the Salk vaccine safe? Answer: no, not under testing procedures so far used. Sebrell admitted that the safety tests originally developed for the 1955 Salk vaccine...
Figure skater Hugh C. Graham '55 was awarded a special letter by vote of the Faculty Committee on Athletics last Friday. The award, similar to that given Dick Button several years ago, was earned by Graham's third place in the National Skating championships. He is also a member of the United States Skating Team...
...balancing ticket receipts vs. athletic expenses, and for all of the above, Getchell became the first person to be honored with an honorary letter without specific association with a sport. He joins, among other honorary letter winners, Bobby Jones (golf), Dick Harlow (football), Tom Bolles (crew), and Dick Button (skating...
Claire McCardell's creations are dedicated to the propositions that 1) clothes should be made to be worn in comfort, and 2) only comfort can create sense-making style. Her clothes are functional, simple and clean of line. She likes "buttons that button and bows that tie." She is, says Dallas Retailer Stanley Marcus, "the master of the line, never the slave of the sequin. She is one of the few creative designers this country has ever produced...
Stick Men Gone Wrong. Claire McCardell works in a tiny cubbyhole above Seventh Avenue, surrounded by button boxes, swatches of material, scrapbooks and half-finished dresses. She has an artist's sense of color and a sculptor's feeling for form; wherever she goes, she keeps both eyes peeled for new ideas. "With these dames," says her partner, Adolph Klein, "you don't know where they get their inspiration. It may be from the crack in the wall." With Claire, most of the inspiration comes from the fabrics that salesmen are forever trying...