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...TIME has not neglected Reader Romann's three great men. Polio Fighter Salk has already appeared on the cover once (in 1954), Einstein three times (1929,1938,1946), and Churchill eight times (between...
...have been a faithful reader of TIME for many years . . . but I was sadly disappointed lately . . . and so I feel were many of your readers. The month of April 1955 was marked by three momentous events: Churchill's retirement, Dr. Salk's achievement and Einstein's death. These events were conveniently spaced in weekly intervals and tens of thousands of your readers must have been looking forward to seeing these great men pictured on the cover. To be greeted instead by the true likeness of nuns and fashion designers was surely an anticlimax...
...polio discoveries of Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and two other Faculty members led to the development of the Salk vaccine, Enders' isolation of the measles virus may be the first step toward the possible conquest of the disease...
...consent slips. In New York City, the fallout rate when shots were given last week ran around 30%, in San Francisco about 40%. Most family doctors advised parents to go ahead with vaccination, but in many cases without enthusiasm. Physicians still resented the lack of scientific information on the Salk vaccine in any medical publication, were just as confused as everybody else by the Public Health Service's repeated change of signals...
...both the nation and the world, 1955 may well be known as the year of the Great Cure-All. As people look away from the Government's short-lived promises of Salk vaccine for all, they turn now to another panacea--the Conference at the Summit. But amid all the talk of top-level meetings as medicine for the world's political ills, a most important fact has been only lightly brushed over: the Russians have not yet accepted Western invitations to confer...