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...their chairs, Virus Expert Jonas E. Salk of the University of Pittsburgh gave out up-to-date details last week of the vaccine (TIME, Feb. 9) which, it is hoped, can defeat polio. Key points in his review: ¶The virus can be readily cultivated in tissues from monkeys' kidneys. This process gives a higher yield than using monkey testicles (on which earlier experiments were made) and is safer than using brain tissues. ¶After the virus has been killed with formaldehyde, it can still stimulate the human defensive system to manufacture antibodies which give protection against infection...
...laws of economics, the Club of the Three Wise Monkeys should be on its uppers these days. Few families can still afford such expensive education-330 guineas a year ($970). But for British finishing schools, the postwar currency laws have worked wonders by all but stopping the annual export of debutantes to the once-popular Continental schools. Last week the Monkey Club could honestly boast that business is booming...
During the day, of course, there is school work to be done, for it is not every Monkey who is preparing herself only for "the season." Some will spend a year or two as secretaries or receptionists; many are out for careers; almost all want a smattering of culture. So in addition to the social graces, the club offers French, homemaking and stenography. If a girl is particularly ambitious, she may-unless Miss Ellison rules to the contrary-take interior decorating, philosophy, dressmaking, mathematics, art, Latin. She will also get such extracurricular broadening as a visit to Fleet Street...
...whether Commercial, Sporting or Colonels, most old Monkeys do well in life. The club will organize a whole "season" for a debutante, chaperone her in the direction of all the most eligible young men. And every year there is always at least one Monkey who does her alma mater particularly proud. Last season it was Susan Hornby, who married the Marquess of Blandford. This year's champ: Jane McNeill, now the wife of the Earl of Dalkeith...
Amidst the twittering that precedes any children's program, the orchestra seated itself kitty-cornered across stage right. Actors in monkey suits planted narrow banners with simply designed pictures of jungle palms on the left. Onstage came a clutch of people wearing elephant heads -and the show was on. The story took the little elephant from his African jungle to the big city, into a school ("Good children in the front, bad children in the back"), into virtual slavery in a circus, and finally back into the jungle, where Babar married the princess, became king, and lived happily ever...