¶ For developing the vaccines which give immunity to yellow fever (8,000,000 U.S. servicemen took the shots in World War II), Dr. Max Theiler, 52, of the Rockefeller Foundation, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in medicine: a gold medal and $32,357. Born in South Africa, Dr. Theiler has lived 29 years in the U.S. Of the award he said: "It looks as though yellow jack got me the jackpot."
¶ In Charleroi, Belgium, Gynecologist Jules Hustin had just delivered Mme. Berthe Mahaux of a boy by Caesarean section when her heart stopped. He thrust his hand upward through the Caesarean incision...
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