Polio Wars (80 page)

92.
McCarthy “Kenny,” 24–29. On Latham see Kenny and Ostenso
And They Shall Walk
, 127–129. Kenny supposedly said that what she “hated most” was to “go to teas with a lot of fat, overdressed, overbejewelled [sic] women who've never done one honest day's work in their lives”; Cohn
Sister Kenny
, 168.

93.
Gunzburg “Rough Outline,” 51.

94.
McCarthy “Outline,” 7.

95.
[Gunzburg] “Final Script.”

96.
Ibid.

97.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Nichols, August 12 1944.

98.
[Cohn interview with] Rosalind Russell, April 20 1955; [Cohn interview with] Basil O'Connor, June 20 1955, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

99.
Anon.
Liberty
October 12 1946.

100.
McCracken interviews with Rogers, November 1993. Guards had to be stationed to give warning when Kenny appeared on the set, for Russell “between takes, could not resist
throwing out her chest in a burlesque of the woman she admired”; Louis Berg “A Tomboy Grows Up”
Los Angeles Times
February 22 1948.

101.
“War Veteran Expert on Set Authenticity”
Hartford Courant
December 9 1945.

102.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Nichols, September 18 1944.

103.
Ralph R. Doyle [managing director of RKO Radio Pictures in Sydney] to Dear Mr. Chuter, October 24 1945, OM 65-17, Box 3, Folder 12, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; see also Chuter to Dear Sir, September 15 1944, Box 3, Folder 19, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ. Nichols told the Sydney distributor to assure Chuter that “the whole script will be handled with the utmost dignity and in the pursuit of truth.” Nichols admitted that some “surface details” were “inexact” but this was “only because we want to grasp more fully the spirit of truth”; Dudley Nichols to Dear Mr. Doyle, October 29 1945, OM 65-17, Box 3, Folder 12, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

104.
Chuter to Mr. Schneider [RKO Pictures, Brisbane] Memorandum: Re Script of Picture “Sister Kenny” October 23 1945, OM 65-17, Box 3, Folder 12, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

105.
Chuter to Dear Duncan [McInnes, Secretary, Toowoomba Hospitals Board], January 9 1947, Box 1, Folder 1, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; Chuter to D. Schneider [RKO Pictures, Brisbane], October 15 [1947], Box 1, Folder 1, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; Chuter to George Bayer [manager of Brisbane's Regent Theatre], October 30 [1947], Box 1, Folder 1, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; Chuter to Kenny, October 15 [1947], Box 1, Folder 1, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ. Kenny attended the film's premiere in Brisbane, and also showed her technical films; on “the deep silence, and intense interest with which the films were followed” see Miss I. Martin to Dear Madam [Sister Kenny], November 6, 1947, Wilson Collection.

106.
“RKO presents Sister Kenny” [advertisement]
Life
(September 16 1946) 21: 17.

107.
Cedric Adams “In This Corner”
Minneapolis Star-Journal
July 5 1946.

108.
“RKO presents Sister Kenny” [advertisement]
Life
(September 16 1946) 21: 17.

109.
“The Wedding Gown that Waited” [advertisement]
Woman's Home Companion
[1946] 81, author's possession.

110.
“RKO Presents Sister Kenny” [advertisement]
Colliers
(September 28 1946) 118: 31.

111.
Poster in author's possession; for other posters see Victor Cohn “Sister Kenny's Fierce Fight for Better Polio Care”
Smithsonian Magazine
(November 1981) 12: 196; and see Hulett “Net Effect of a Commercial Motion Picture,” 267.

112.
[Cohn interview with] Dudley Nichols, [circa 1955], Cohn Papers, MHS-K; [Cohn interview with] Mary and Stuart McCracken, April 14 1953, Cohn Papers, MHS-K. The McCrackens told Cohn that Kenny and McCarthy had broken up after McCarthy was drinking and it became obvious that Elizabeth Dickinson and she were lesbians; Kenny was shocked and did not want to have her working on the picture. But compare: McCarthy had confided in Kenny about a nasty breakup with her girlfriend, and later wrote delightedly to tell Kenny about a new friend, saying “I'm deeply fond of her and I know you would approve of her utterly;” Mary McCarthy to My Beloved Elizabeth, February 7 1944; Mary McCarthy to Sister Dear, February 25 1944.

113.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Nichols, August 12 1944; Kenny to Dear Mary [McCarthy], August 28 1944, Cohn Papers, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Mary [McCarthy], August 12 1944, Cohn Papers, MHS-K; [Cohn first interview with] Rosalind Russell, August 18 1953; see also Alexander
Maverick
, 158–159.

114.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Nichols, August 18 1944, Cohn Papers, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Mr. Nichols, September 18 1944.

115.
Kenny to Dear Mary [McCarthy], August 12 1944.

116.
Ibid.

117.
“Kenny Film to Be Shown Here Tonight”
Washington Times-Herald
October 22 1944; Cohn
Sister Kenny
, 193.

118.
[Cohn interview with] Rosalind Russell, April 20 1955.

119.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Bell, May 4 1944, James Ford Bell 1942–1946, MHS-K.

120.
Harold S. Diehl “Memorandum of Conference Concerning the Future Teaching of Sister Kenny's Work and the Relation of the Medical School to the Kenny Institute and the Kenny Foundation” July 18 1944, [accessed in 1992 before recent re-cataloging], Am. 15.8, Folder 16, UMN-ASC; Kenny in [Minutes] Adjourned Meeting, Elizabeth Kenny Corporation, August 8 1944, Board of Directors, undated and 1944–1945, MHS-K.

121.
Kenny to Ladies and Gentlemen, [July 1944], [accessed in 1992 before recent re-cataloging], Am. 15.8, Folder 23, UMN-ASC; [Script enclosed with] C. A. Abbott [sales manager, Ray-Bell Films] to Dear Sister Kenny, July 28 1944, Ray-Bell Films, 1944–1945, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Dr. Boines, April 5 1945, Dr. George J. Boines, 1941–1946, MHS-K.

122.
Kenny to Honorable Sir [President Truman], October 12 1945, Board of Directors, MHS-K; and see Kenny to Lionel Moise, [March 1944] [Statement],
The American Weekly
, 1943–1945, MHS-K; Kenny “Data Concerning Introduction of Kenny Concept.”

123.
Kenny to Gentlemen, September 25 1944, Committee to Review Request of Elizabeth Kenny Institute to National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis: General, Medical Sciences, 1944, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. (hereafter Review 1944, NAS).

124.
National Research Council, Division of Medical Sciences, “Report of Special Committee to Review Request Submitted by Elizabeth Kenny Institute, Inc. to National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc.,” November 8 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K, 17–18.

125.
“Recommendations Suggested by GBD as a Basis of Discussion,” Review 1944, NAS.

126.
“Sound Motion Picture on Infantile Paralysis Ready for Distribution”
National Foundation News
(June 1945) 4: 32; “Physical Therapy Film”
Archives of Physical Medicine
(September 1946) 27: 580.

127.
“Kenny Film Shown to 700”
Minneapolis Star-Journal
October 13 1944; Diehl to Dear Sister Kenny, October 5 1944, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944, MHS-K; “Kenny Film to Be Shown Here Tonight”
Washington Times-Herald
, October 22 1944.

128.
“Kenny Film Shown to 700”
Minneapolis Star-Journal
October 13 1944; “Sister Kenny Returns From East as Big Drive Opens”
Minneapolis Star-Journal
November 15 1944.

129.
Kenny
A Brief Description of the Film Presenting The Kenny Concept
[pamphlet, 1945] [accessed in 1992 before recent re-cataloging], Am. 15.8, Folder 25, UMN-ASC, 9.

130.
Kenny
A Brief Description of the Film Presenting The Kenny Concept
, 12; Notes taken by Naomi Rogers during the viewing of
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, Wilson Collection.

131.
Kenny to Dear Sir [James Pooler], April 10 1945, Michigan-Newspapers, 1945, MHS-K.

132.
Notes taken by Rogers of
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
.

133.
Kenny
A Brief Description of the Film Presenting The Kenny Concept
, 5; see also notes taken by Rogers of
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
.

134.
Jean Anderson to Dear Sister Kenny, September 10 1944, Case Files—Misc., A-K, 1943–1946, MHS-K.

135.
Proceedings Before the Board of Regents, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the matter of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Elizabeth Kenny Institute, Inc., 18th and Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 10 1945, University of Minnesota—Board
of Regents, 1945–1946, MHS-K; [Script enclosed with] C. A. Abbott [sales manager, Ray-Bell Films] to Dear Sister Kenny, July 28 1944, Ray-Bell Films, 1944–1945, MHS-K. For an example of a still from the film with caption see Sister Elizabeth Kenny
My Battle and Victory: History of the Discovery of Poliomyelitis as a Systemic Disease
(London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955), opposite 48.

136.
Kenny to Dear Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen [of Board of Directors], [January 1945], Board of Directors, undated and 1944–1945, MHS-K.

137.
Kenny to Dear Sir [James Pooler] April 10 1945.

138.
Kenny
A Brief Description of the Film Presenting The Kenny Concept
, 5.

139.
Notes taken by Rogers of
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
.

140.
Ibid.

141.
Ibid.

142.
Kenny
A Brief Description of the Film Presenting The Kenny Concept
, 7.

143.
Notes taken by Rogers of
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
; for a still of Wally see Kenny
My Battle and Victory
, opposite 65.

144.
Kenny “This Is Elizabeth Kenny Speaking” [opening speech of campaign for Kenny Foundation, c.1945], [accessed in 1992 before recent re-cataloging], UMN-ASC.

145.
Perkins was Harold Diehl's brother-in-law; see “Biographic Sketch of Harold Diehl,” James E. Perkins, March 4 1958, Diehl, 1932–1959, Box 9, Myers Papers, UMN-ASC.

146.
James E. Perkins to Dear Miss Kenny, May 15 1945, Dr. James E. Perkins, 1944–1945, MHS-K.

147.
Ibid.

148.
Ibid.

149.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Perkins, May 23 1945, Dr. James E. Perkins, 1944–1945, MHS-K.

150.
Ibid.

151.
Perkins to Kenny, June 4 1945, Dr. James E. Perkins, 1944–1945, MHS-K.

152.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Perkins, June 6 1945, Dr. James E. Perkins, 1944–1945, MHS-K.

153.
“Doctors See Film of Kenny Cure”
New York Journal-American
[October 31 1945], Clippings, MHS-K.

154.
Kent H. Powers to Dear Mr. Stone, October 13 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K.

155.
JLL to CK Memorandum re Miss Kenny's Film, December 11 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K.

156.
Kenny to Dear Sir [Captain L. W. White, New Zealand Air Mission], April 23 1945, Personal Correspondence and Related Papers, 1942–1951, MHS-K; Kenny to My Dear Dr. Boines, April 23 1945, Dr. George J. Boines, 1941–1946, MHS-K; [Cohn notes, after interview with] Mary and Stuart McCracken, May 19 1955, Cohn Papers, MHS-K; Alexander
Maverick
, 164, 167–169.

157.
Kenny to President and Members of the Board of Directors [Institute], September 10 1945, Public Relations, MOD-K; Kenny to Honorable Sir [President Truman], October 12 1945.

158.
Kenny to President and Members of the Board of Directors [Institute], September 10 1945; Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens, August 31 1945, Dr. Philip[pe] Bauwens, 1945–1947, MHS-K. Bauwens was a major figure in British and European physical medicine, and later was one of the founders, along with Frank Krusen, of the International Federation of Physician Medicine and Rehabilitation. A specialist in electrotherapy and clinical electromyography, he made these fields professionally respectable by bringing together the disparate physicians
working with electricity and other physical modalities into a formal organization in the 1930s, which became the British Association of Physical Medicine in 1944.

159.
“Report of the Meeting of the British Association of Physical Medicine on the ‘Kenny Treatment' ”
British Journal of Physical Medicine
(1945) [reprinted in]
Archives of Physical Medicine
(September 1946) 27: 579–580.

160.
Harold Balme, letter to editor, “The Kenney [sic] Treatment”
Lancet
(August 11 1945) 2: 186.

161.
Bauwens to Dear Sister Kenny, July 31 1945, Minnesota-Hospitals, Sister Kenny Institute, 1944–1961, Judd Papers, MHS.

162.
Brian Stanford to Dear Sir [Marvin Kline], September 27 1945, England—Misc., 1942, 1950, MHS-K; Marvin L. Kline to Dear Doctor Stanford, September 10 1945, England—Misc., 1942, 1950, MHS-K. See also Stanford “The Evolution of the Medical Film in Britain,” 385–387.

163.
Widely respected and with family connections in Belgium, Bauwens may have suggested to Kenny that she contact Leon Laruelle at the Neurological Institute in Brussels; F. S. Cooksey “Philippe Bauwens, F.R.C.P.”
Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
(May 1942) 13: 49–50. According to Kenny, it was Baron Waha de Baillonville, the Belgian representative of the Red Cross in Britain, who arranged for Kenny to visit Brussels; Kenny to President and Members of the Board of Directors [Institute], September 10 1945.

164.
Kenny to President and Members of the Board of Directors [Institute], September 10 1945.