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Ward was the founding editor of Audience Magazine (1970–1973) and the editor of American Heritage Magazine (1977–1982). His 1989 biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Author whose work includes essays and memoirs on the subject of disability. He caught polio, aged eleven, which left him without the use of his legs. [69] Peter Levi: 1931–2000 After battling polio as a teenager, [70] Levi went on to become—among other things—a professor of poetry at Oxford, a Jesuit priest, and the author of over 40 books.
[3]: 195 [self-published source] Several authors have stated that Roosevelt was more vulnerable to polio since he was raised on an isolated family estate [10] and had little contact with other children until he entered Groton at age 14. However, Roosevelt was not a "boy in a bubble". He had many possible exposures to polio viruses before 1921.
All acute cases were sent to Queen's Memorial Hospital and Medical Superintendent Dr F.V.G. Scholes, set aside 230 beds for polio patients. [7] 1275 polio patients were admitted between July 1937 and July 1938. [5] Most were less than 14 years old, 140 had respiratory paralysis and 106 required respirator treatment in an iron lung. [7]
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Geoffrey Christopher Ward, FRSA (born 1954) is a British academic specialising in American literature. [1] He became Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge in 2013 [2] (succeeded in 2021 by Simon Woolley). [3] In 2020, the College announced that Ward would retire in September 2021 after eight years as Principal. [4] [5]
Mia Farrow went on social media on Friday to slam a “nightmare” report that a lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human ...
Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said.He was 78. ...