Lately, there has been a degree of politeness in the elevators here in the TIME & LIFE Building that would be considered extraordinary anywhere. Practically everyone has had a sore arm or a sore legthe result of vaccination for smallpoxand an understandable desire to protect them from sudden onslaught.
Like some 6,000,000 other New Yorkers, the staff of TIME Inc. underwent this mass vaccination during the recent threatened smallpox epidemic. There were no serious casualties, although the TIME & LIFE Medical Departmentassisted by a private physician and serum from the Willard Parker laboratoriesput in a grueling week vaccinating about 1,000 of us.
Normally,...
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