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Word: ravenel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...problem (not peculiar to North Carolina) has been the dearth of highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Walk with Salk | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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