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...original Beale was, but the street was once a fashionable place where wealthy white men built their mansions. During the Civil War, General Ulysses Grant planned the siege of Vicksburg from headquarters on Beale Street. But its real fame and flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above all, the music of Beale Street became famous up and down the Mississippi...
...purity of love is explained by Sorokin's old-fashioned definition of altruism. "Love known no bargain ... no reward. love is always for love's sake." Sorokin attacks the blind "romantic" kind of love (which he calls "a sort of a fever") as the most typical type of inadequate love...
...live vaccine safe? Dr. Salk, for one, does not think so. Although the live-virus method has been used successfully in the long-established smallpox and yellow fever vaccines, he believes that the polio virus is too tough and tricky to permit development in safe, nonvimlent form. Dr. Sabin disagrees, thinks it can be done. Growing virus strains of all three types under hothouse conditions, he found some that, when injected into the spinal cords of chimpanzees, produced no paralysis. All they did was to stimulate the animals to produce antibodies against any future invading polio virus. And these antibodies...
Drama is the forte of the March of Dimes. While the organization can hardly expect to dramatize the slow and careful final work on Salk vaccine, it can easily bring the tragedy of leukemia, rheumatic fever, or some other disease to the hearts of the people. Responding in this appeal in their generous and sympathetic manner, Americans can help the March of Dimes conquer another health menace...
...good for banner headlines everywhere, and was covered by the press as massively as the end of a major war-which it was. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.* Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever and some forms of cancer which single out the young. But, largely because of its long-term crippling effects, no disease except cancer has been so widely feared in the last three decades. With polio's dramatic defeat, as the Detroit Free Press wrote, "The prayers and hopes...