Polio Wars (82 page)

245.
“The Sister Kenny Film”
The Lamp
(February 1947) 4: 14, Wilson Collection.

246.
“A great many uniformed people will be badly confused by this film, which is presumably intended to spread confidence and light”; Bosley Crowther “Sizing ‘Sister Kenny”
New York Times
October 6 1946. See also “vitally interested families may take its one-sided message too deeply to heart. They should be wanted that the picture's natural enthusiasm of the biography renders it somewhat misleading as present-day scientific gospel”; Winsten “Movie Talk: Movie House Murals as Clean As Pictures Shown on Screen.”

247.
Eileen Creelman
New York Sun
[1946] in Clipping File, Kenny Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.

248.
Time
review [September 30 1946], reprinted in
Minneapolis Morning Tribune
October 3 1946; John Pohl to Dear Sir [
Time
] [1946], [accessed in 1992 before recent re-cataloging], UMN-ASC.

249.
At the end of a review of “Madame Curie” the
New Yorker
film critic did ask plaintively whether “someday” a film would “be made about a scientist who was not scoffed at by the authorities … who did not have to surmount insurmountable obstacles to reach his goal … who lolled in luxury, [and] knocked off an invention or two when he felt like it”; David Lardner “Popular Science”
New Yorker
(December 18 1943), 19: 53–54.

250.
Crowther “Sizing ‘Sister Kenny' ”; Editorial “Sister Kenny: Problem Child of Medicine,” 413–414; see also Crowther's comments on the “eulogistic and romantic treatment” of growing numbers of “living biography” Hollywood films; Crowther “Living Biographies, Hollywood Style,”
New York Times
January 20 1946.

251.
John McCarten “Experiment Perilous”
New Yorker
(September 28 1946) 22: 91–93. The title of the review was a reference to the 1944 RKO thriller of the same name.

252.
Ray Pospisil [Miami Florida] to Sister Kenny, February 14 1947, General Correspondence, February 11–28 1947, MHS-K.

253.
Mrs. H. P. Schoening [Allegan, Michigan] to Sister Kenny, December 26 1946, General Correspondence, February 1–10 1947, MHS-K.

254.
Leon A. Colton [Milwaukee] to Sister Kenny, January 19 1947, General Correspondence, February 1–10 1947, MHS-K.

255.
Alda Erma Cononna [River Edge, New Jersey] to Sister Kenny, December 29 1946, General Correspondence, February 1–10 1947, MHS-K.

256.
Helen E. Sente [Hastings on Hudson, New York] to Sister Kenny, January 30 1947, General Correspondence, February 1–10 1947, MHS-K.

257.
Mrs. Don D. Lariscy to My Dear Sister Kenny, May 15 1947, General Correspondence, June 1947, MHS-K.

258.
Secretary to Sister Elizabeth Kenny to My Dear Mrs. Lariscy, June 6 1947, General Correspondence, June 1947, MHS-K.

259.
Mrs. Mary Cavallaro [Brooklyn] to Sister Kenny, January 16 1947, General Correspondence, March 15–31 1947, MHS-K.

260.
[Lewin] “Preamble to the Proposal for the Establishment of a Polio Unit at Michael Reese Hospital” [1946], Public Relations, Lewin, MOD; Kenny to My Dear Mr. O'Connor [form letter], January 18 1946 [1947], Public Relations, MOD-K.

261.
Kenny to Dear Doctor Stimson, October 8 1945, Public Relations, MOD-K.

262.
“New Controversy Forecast as Result of Kenny Movie”
Minneapolis Morning Tribune
September 13 1946.

263.
Stimson to Kenny, September 19 1946, in Stimson, [Scrapbook] “Sister Elizabeth Kenny and Her Treatment of Acute Poliomyelitis in The United States as Experienced and Taught by Philip M. Stimson, M.D.” [1969], Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, New York Academy of Medicine, New York City.

264.
Excerpts from minutes of the staff meeting [Public Relations], September 10 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K. “If you have not already seen it, I would like to call your attention to the statement by Dr. Philip Stimson in Life Magazine for September 16, relative to the Sister Kenny movie”; “Dear Mr.____” September 19 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K.

265.
Kenny to Philip M. Stimson, October 2 1946, in Stimson [Scrapbook].

266.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Hearn, December 2 1946, Richard J. Hearn 1946, MHS-K.

267.
E. B. Radcliffe “Show Mirror”
Enquirer
[1946], Public Relations, MOD-K.

268.
[Cohn interview with] Al Baum and Mrs. Baum, June 14 1955, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

269.
Philip Stimson in “Conferences on Therapy: Treatment of Poliomyelitis”
New York State Journal of Medicine
(April 1 1945) 45: 1–6.

270.
Hazel Macdonald “Doctors, Discuss Polio, Sister Kenny” [unnamed newspaper] May 2 1947, Clippings 1945–1947, MHS-K; see also “Conferences on Therapy: Treatment of Poliomyelitis”
New York State Journal of Medicine
(April 1 1945) 45: 3.

271.
Kenny, Report to Board of Directors of the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation; Kenny to Mr. President, Mrs. Webber and Gentlemen, May 24 1948, Board of Directors, MHS-K.

272.
Stimson, [Scrapbook].

273.
Minister for Health and Home Affairs to Dear Mr. Pike [Agent General for Queensland, London] July 23 1946, Home Secretary's Office, Special Batches, Kenny Clinics, 1941–1949, A/31753, QSA; [Cohn interview with] Abe Fryberg, [c. 1953], Cohn Papers, MHS-K; “Doctors For U.S. To See Kenny Style”
Brisbane Courier-Mail
May 22 1946.

274.
“Report on Concepts and Treatment of Poliomyelitis by Thomas Victor Stubbs Brown, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S. Ed., Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, Brisbane Hospital and Abraham Fryberg, M.B., D.P.H., D.T.M., Deputy Director-General of Health and Medical Services, Brisbane, 6th December, 1946,” OM 65-7, 2/5, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

275.
J. A. Myers to Dear Maurice [Visscher], March 31 1947, Box 19, Folder 1, Myers Papers, UMN-ASC; Myers to Dear Dr. Visscher, June 13 1946, Box 1, Minnesota Poliomyelitis Research Committee Collection, UMN-ASC.

276.
[handwritten] Maurice [Visscher] to Myers, n.d., on Myers to Dear Maurice, March 31 1947, Box 19, Folder 1, Myers Papers, UMN-ASC.

277.
[Chuter] to Dear Abe [Fryberg] December 24 [19]46, Wilson Collection; Kenny to Dear Doctor Diehl, February 7 1946, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944 [sic], MHS-K; Chuter to Dear
Mr. Kelly, May 27 1946, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ. Mary Kenny was married in May 1946.

278.
H. J. Summers “Sister Kenny Says It's Goodbye This Time”
Brisbane Courier Mail
November 18 1947; “Sister Kenny Scorns ‘Modern' Polio Methods”
Brisbane Courier Mail
November 11 1947.

279.
“Sister Kenny to End U.S. Work, Aide Says,”
New York Times
February 14 1947; “Says Sister Kenny Retires Friday”
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
February 13 1947.

280.
Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, August 19 1947, Box 1, Folder 6, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, April 21 1947, Box 1, Folder 1, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

281.
Hoyts Regent [advertisement] “Sister Kenny”
Brisbane Telegraph
October 16 1947. See also [advertisement] “Sister Kenny” [unnamed Brisbane newspaper] December 31 1947, OM 65-17, Box 3, Folder 19, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

282.
Lon Jones “Bitter Storm Likely Over Kenny Film”
Brisbane Telegraph
November 21 1945; “Kenny Film Hits At Doctors Here”
Brisbane Telegraph
July 12 1946.

283.
“Will Attack Kenny Film”
Brisbane Sunday Mail
December 9 1945; “Sister Kenny Prepares For Her Hardest Battle”
Brisbane Telegraph
September 25 1947; “Sister Kenny”
[Sydney] People Magazine
June 20 1951, 6–7.

284.
“Sister Kenny: Life Story in Film”
Toowoomba Chronicle
[October] 1947, Box 3, Folder 19, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

285.
Kenny “My First Experience with the Disease … [Report of European Trip 1947]” [1947], Biographical Data, MHS-K.

On the history of medicine and film see Bruce Babbington “‘To Catch a Star on Your Fingertips': Diagnosing the Medical Biopic from
The Story of Louis Pasteur
to
Freud
” in Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor eds.
Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema
(London: Wallflower, 2005), 120–131; Timothy M. Boon
Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television
(London: Wallflower Press, 2008); David Cantor “Uncertain Enthusiasm: The American Cancer Society, Public Education, and the Problems of the Movie, 1921–1960”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
(2007) 81: 39–69; T. Hugh Crawford “Glowing Dishes: Radium, Marie Curie, and Hollywood”
Biography
(2000) 23: 71–89; George F. Custen
Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992); Peter E. Dans
Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Ahh
(Bloomington, IL: Medi-Ed Press, 2000); Thomas Doherty
Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1993); Marianne Fedunkiw “Malaria Films: Motion Pictures as a Public Health Tool”
American Journal of Public Health
(2003) 93: 1046–1057; Lester D. Friedman ed.
Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2004); Bert Hansen
Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009); Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor eds.
Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine
(London: Wallflower Press, 2005); Philip A. Kalisch and Beatrice J. Kalisch “The Image of the Nurse in Motion Pictures”
American Journal of Nursing
(1982) 82: 605–611; Anne Karpf
Doctoring the Media: The Reporting of Health and Medicine
(London: Routledge, 1988); Susan E. Lederer
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets
of Nature
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002); Susan E. Lederer “Repellent Subjects: Hollywood Censorship and Surgical Images in the 1930s”
Literature and Medicine
(1998) 17: 91–113; Susan E. Lederer and John Parascandola “Screening Syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Meets the Public Health Service”
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
(1998) 53: 345–370; Susan E. Lederer and Naomi Rogers “Media” in Roger Cooter and John Pickstone eds.
Medicine in the Twentieth Century
(London: Harwood, 2000), 487–502; Gregg Mitman “Cinematic Nature: Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the American Museum of Natural History”
Isis
(1993) 84: 637–661; Martin F. Norden
The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994); Kristin Ostherr
Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2005); John Parascandola
Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008); Martin S. Pernick
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of ‘Defective' Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler eds.
Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007); Miriam Posner “Depth Perception: Filmmaking and Narrative in American Medicine” Ph.D. dissertation in Film Studies and American Studies, Yale University, 2011; Naomi Rogers “ ‘Sister Kenny' ”
Isis
(1993) 84: 772–774; Eric Schaefer
“Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!:” A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959
(Durham: Duke University Press, 1999); David Serlin ed.
Imaging Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010); Kay Sloan
The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988); Christopher R. Smit and Anthony Enns eds.
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001); Ken Smith
Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films, 1945–1970
(New York: Blast Books, 1999).