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crashes and freak mishaps such as falling clown elevator shafts and from painting scaffolds. There are also new postwar para- pleg'ics from the services—jeep, truck, gilder, and plane casualties—to take the place of departing war paraplegics. At VA hospitals like Kennedy Hospital, Memphis, the veteran paraplegic puts the final touches on his training. There in one large building called Independence Hall is a complete make-belleve world for the disabled. Walking surfaces, such as peb- ble, gravel, and tile, help the crippled vet- eran to develop a keen sense of position. There are ramps, stairs and chairs, church
-MEOICUVE //• Newsweek Photos—Ed Werg-eles City_
New York (NEWSWEEK, Feb. 10, 1947). In the big, sunny wards of the ancient in- stitution, paraplegic men, women, and children go through intensive training to take them from bed to a job or to school. There is Alice, a handsome brunette paraplegic who was crippled by polio at the age of II. Before coming to Bellevue in January 1947, she had spent fourteen years in a wheel chair. Now, walking on braces and crutches with ease and assurance, Alice holds down a full-time job as secre- tary to a Bellevue doctor. Her roommate, another hospital secretary, is Margaret, a pretty Southern girl whose back was broken in an