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After a night's sleep in Troy, the children were as lively as ever, but John Kidder had the sniffles and a splitting headache. Another day showed weakness in his right arm. John Kidder walked into a hospital and was put to bed. Since that day in June of 1951, he has never been able to get out of bed unaided. Polio, which is yearly taking a higher toll of adults, had spared the Kidder children but struck the father. As he puts it: "From active good health I was transformed in two short days into a motionless hulk...
...Pont fabric plant, spent the first few days close to his home in Fairfield, Conn., lazing on the beach and playing golf. He washed and waxed the car. Then his wife and three children piled into it for the drive up the Hudson River valley to Troy, where they were going to spend a week with his parents. On the way, they stopped at Hyde Park and saw the grave of the nation's most famed polio victim. It was the polio season, but the Kidders felt only the vague concern that all parents have for their youngsters...
Weaned from the Lung. Last week Kidder was back in the little Montana town of Ronan (pop. 1,251), where he grew up. He had spent 54 days (most of them in an iron lung) in the Troy hospital, then 14 months at the Mary MacArthur Center in Massachusetts, where he was "weaned" from the lung and introduced to a rocking bed. This device, with an adjustable top like a hospital bed, has a motor which makes it rock in teetertotter style. As the bed head rises, the weight of the abdominal organs pulls down the patient's diaphragm...
...current political threats without beclouding his work with fiery fist-shaking. Following the ancient tragedy, he depicts the horse as a menace, which only a mad girl and Helen realize. The people, confused by the symbol for which it represents, denounce the two women and admit the horse to Troy. MacLeish is one of few poets who has expressed a modern dilemma with such vitality, deftness, and fearlessness. If the task of poetry is to create or recreate life, one hopes that this poet will not be alone in treating the most urgent problems which confront men today...
...said it over & over again, from Hartford to Pontiac: his campaign's "simple purpose is to provide-in lieu of shopworn, bad government-to provide good government and good leadership for America .. ." At Troy, N.Y. he dealt with one example of "bad government": "Inflation, the thief that robs you every...