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165.
Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens, August 31 1945; Kenny to President and Members of the Board of Directors [Institute], September 10 1945; Kenny to Gentlemen [Board of Regents, University of Minnesota], September 20 1945, University of Minnesota—Board of Regents, 1945–1946, MHS-K.

166.
Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens, August 31 1945.

167.
Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens [September 1945], Dr. Philip[pe] Bauwens, 1945–1947, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens, August 31 1945. Laruelle had produced medical films himself in the 1930s on paraplegia, encephalitis, and other neurological conditions.

168.
Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens, August 31 1945; Kenny to Dear Doctor Bauwens [September 1945].

169.
Marvin L. Kline to Dear Doctor Bauwens, September 10 1945, Dr. Philip[pe] Bauwens, 1945–1947, MHS-K.

170.
Kenny to My Dear Dean Diehl, September 22 1945, University of Minnesota—Board of Regents, 1945–1946, MHS-K.

171.
John F. Pohl “The Kenny Concept and Treatment of Infantile Paralysis: Report of Five Year Study of Cases Treated and Supervised by Miss Elizabeth Kenny in America”
Journal-Lancet
(August 1945) 65: 265–271.

172.
Maurice B. Visscher and Jay A. Myers [Editorial] “Sister Kenny Five Years After”
Journal-Lancet
(August 1945) 65: 309–310.

173.
“‘U' Medics Clash Over Success of Kenny Concept” [Minneapolis newspaper] August 23 1945, Minnesota Poliomyelitis Research Committee, Box 1, UMN-ASC.

174.
Kenny to Gentlemen [Board of Regents, University of Minnesota], September 20 1945; 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.

175.
J. A. Myers “Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis) in Minnesota Including the Elizabeth Kenny Episode” Box 19, Sister Kenny Institute 1938–1946, Myers Papers, UMN-ASC, 42.

176.
Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, May 22 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Oxley-SLQ.

177.
Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, October 29 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, May 22 1945; [Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, September 27 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, November 22 1944, Wilson Collection.

178.
[Chuter] to Dear Mr. Editor, June 17 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

179.
“Professor Attacks Sister Kenny”
Brisbane Sunday Telegraph
April 15 1945.

180.
J. V. Duhig to Dear Mr. Chuter, August 5 1945, Box 3, Folder 13, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

181.
[Chuter] to Dear Professor Wilkinson, August 21 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ; [Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, September 27 1945.

182.
[Chuter] to Dear Professor Wilkinson, August 21 1945ary of Queensland; [Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, September 27 1945; Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, September 6 1945.

183.
[Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, October 5 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

184.
[Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, December 20 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

185.
[Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, September 27 1945; Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, September 6 1945; Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, October 29 1945; Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, October 5 1945.

186.
[Chuter] to Dear Sister Kenny, September 27 1945.

187.
Ibid.

188.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Bauwens, October 26 1945, Dr. Philip[pe] Bauwens, 1945–1947, MHS-K; Kenny to My Dear Dr. Bauwens, December 20 1945, Dr. Philip[pe] Bauwens, 1945–1947, MHS-K. For a reference to the film in 8 different languages (French, Spanish. German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Greek and English) see “Move on Kenny Training Centre For Australia”
Toowoomba Chronicle
October 25 1951.

189.
Kenny to My Dear Dr. Bauwens, February 9 1946, Dr. Philip[pe] Bauwens, 1945–1947, MHS-K.

190.
Bauwens to Dear Miss Kenny, November 5 1945, Minnesota-Hospitals, Sister Kenny Institute, 1944–1961, Judd Papers, MHS; Bauwens to Dear Miss Kenny, January 15 1946, Minnesota-Hospitals, Sister Kenny Institute, 1944–1961, Judd Papers, MHS.

191.
Kenny to Basil O'Connor, December 26 1946, James A. Crabtree, MHS-K. She also claimed that the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Australia had “also placed this film in their library.”

192.
“Sister Kenny Wins Fight for Recognition”
Chicago Herald-American
February 3 1946.

193.
[Cohn second interview with] Valerie Harvey, August 27 1953, Cohn Papers, MHS-K; see also [Cohn interview with] Rosalind Russell, April 20 1955; [Cohn notes, after interview with] Mary and Stuart McCracken, May 19 1955, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

194.
[Cohn interview with] Stuart McCracken, April 14 1953, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

195.
Kenny to Dear Mary [Kenny], [November 1945], Mary Stewart Kenny, 1942–1947, MHS-K.

196.
Kenny to Dear Margaret [Opdahl], August 10 1945, Kenny Collection, Fryer Library; Marvin Teeter to My Dear Sister Kenny, May 10 1945, Red Cross 1942–1945, 1950, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Miss Fraser, May 15 1945, Red Cross 1942–1945, 1950, MHS-K.

197.
DWG to BO'C Memorandum: Re: Miss Kenny, July 13 1945, Public Relations, MOD-K; see also [Cohn interview with] Frank Krusen, March 24 1953, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

198.
Kenny to Dear Friend [Marvin Kline], June 13 1945, Mr. Marvin L. Kline, 1942–1959, MHS-K.

199.
Secretary to Sister Elizabeth Kenny to Dear Doctor Henderson, October 6 1945, Dr. Melvin Henderson, 1942–1948, MHS-K.

200.
Kenny to Honorable Sir [President Truman], October 12 1945.

201.
Kenny to My Dear Mr. Chuter, October 17 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

202.
Kenny to Dear Rosalind [Russell], October 13 1944, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

203.
Kenny to My Dear Mr. Moise, April 24 1945,
The American Weekly
, 1943–1945, MHS-K; Lionel C. Moise to Dear Sister Kenny, May 25 1945,
The American Weekly
, 1943–1945, MHS-K.

204.
Nathan E. Jacobs to Dear Sister Kenny, April 9 1945, Bozell and Jacobs, 1944–1945, MHS-K.

205.
Eugene Smith to Dear Sister Kenny, August 29 1946, Ray-Bell Films, 1944–1948, MHS-K.

206.
F.E. Harrington and John F. Pohl to Dear Mr. Chuter, April 26 1945, Box 3, Folder 12, OM 65-17, Chuter Papers, Oxley-SLQ.

207.
Nora Housden to Dear Sister Kenny, December 9 1948, Belgium—Nora Housden, 1948–1950, MHS-K.

208.
Kenny to Dr. Edward L. Compere, February 12, 1945, Edward L. Compere, 1942–1945, MHS-K.

209.
Kenny to Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen [of Board of Directors], February 14 1945, Board of Directors, undated and 1944–1945, MHS-K.

210.
Ruth McMahon to My Dear Sister Kenny, September 25 1950, General Correspondence–M, MHS-K.

211.
“Sister Kenny Seeks an Institute Here To Care for Infantile Paralysis Victims”
New York Times
November 11 1944; Chester LaRoche to Dear Marvin [Kline], December 3 1945, Clara and Chester LaRoche, 1945–1948, MHS-K.

212.
Kenny's description “for the lay person” is from Kenny to Dennis Rigan, February 27 1948, Michigan-Misc., 1942–1951, MHS-K; see also notes taken by Naomi Rogers during the viewing of
The Value of a Life
, Wilson Collection.

213.
Kenny to Mrs. A. D. Cohen, November 14 1945, Kenneth Kerr and Dolly Cohen, Ohio Fund Drive, 1945–1946, MHS-K.

214.
Kenny to My Dear Mary and Stuart [McCracken], September 24 1946, Mary Stewart Kenny, 1942–1947, MHS-K.

215.
Robert Murphy “20,000 Break Lines to See Sister Kenny”
Minneapolis Star-Journal
[c. September 1946], Scrapbook 1945–1952, 1956, Henry Papers, MHS.

216.
“ ‘Sister Kenny' Premiere Complete With Stars and Bright Lights” [Minneapolis newspaper, unnamed] [October 1946], Scrapbook 1945–1952, 1956, Henry Papers, MHS; “At ‘Sister Kenny' Premier” [Minneapolis newspaper, unnamed] [October 1946], Scrapbook 1945–1952, 1956, Henry Papers, MHS.

217.
“The Wedding Gown That Waited” [advertisement],
Woman's Home Companion
[1946] 81, copy in author's possession.

218.
Velma West Sykes “ ‘Sister Kenny' Is Voted the Winner of November Blue Ribbon Award”
Boxoffice
(December 14 1946) 50: 20.

219.
“From the New York PM”
Minneapolis Morning Tribune
October 5 1946; Louella O. Parsons “In Hollywood: Sister Kenny Triumph for Rosalind Russell”
Los Angeles Examiner
, October 11 1946; “Movie of the Week: ‘Sister Kenny' ”
Life
(September 16 1946) 21: 77.

220.
See Howard Barnes,
New York Tribune
[1946] in Clipping File, Kenny Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.

221.
Karl Krug “ ‘Sister Kenny' Good”
Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph
[November] 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K.

222.
Hulett to Gentlemen [National Foundation], August 22 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K; see also J. E. Hulett, Jr. “Estimating the Net Effect of a Commercial Motion Picture Upon the Trend of Local Public Opinion”
American Sociological Review
(April 1949) 14: 263–275. Note that Hulett had already contacted Peter Cusack about doing a study of the “sociological aspects” of Kenny's campaign; J. E. Hulett, Jr. to Dear Sir [Peter Cusack], June 28 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K; see also J.E. Hulett, Jr. “The Kenny Healing Cult: Preliminary Analysis of Leadership and Patterns of Interaction,”
American Sociological Review
(June 1945) 10: 364–372.

223.
Cusack to Naftzger, November 22 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K; Peter J. A. Cusack to Frank H. Higgins, [telegram], January 10 1945, Public Relations, MOD-K; Phillip K. Scheuer “New Picture Poignant”
Los Angeles Times
December 12 1944.

224.
Unlike later movies such as
Sunrise at Campobello
(Warner Brothers, 1960) and
Interrupted Melody
(MGM, 1955), this film “calls constant attention to the name of polio and its specific clinical manifestations”; Foertsch
Bracing Accounts
, 170–181.

225.
[Handwritten note, no signature] “This man wrote …” Public Relations, MOD-K; George La Porte to Dear Professor Hullett [sic], September 23 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K.

226.
Hulett, Jr. “Estimating the Net Effect of a Commercial Motion Picture,” 263–275.

227.
Judith Klein “ ‘Sister Kenny' Film Seen Raising False Hopes”
[New York] Herald Tribune
October 6 1946.

228.
Archer Winsten “Movie Talk: Movie House Murals as Clean As Pictures Shown on Screen”
New York Post
November 1 1946.

229.
Florence Fisher Parry “I Dare Say: Difference Between Therapy and Cure”
Pittsburgh Press
November 13 1946.

230.
“Movie of the Week: ‘Sister Kenny' ”
Life
(September 16 1946) 21: 77–78, 80.

231.
“A Doctor Comments on ‘Sister Kenny' ”
Life
(September 16 1946) 21: 77–82.

232.
“New Polio Center Set Up in N.Y.”
National Foundation News
(September–October 1945) 4: 41–42.

233.
“At 59 Sister Kenny Is Undaunted”
Life
(September 16 1946) 21: 82.

234.
Ed Sullivan “Little Old New York: I've Got News for You”
New York Daily News
October 17 1946; “Little Old New York: The Passing Show”
New York Daily News
October 31 1946.

235.
Editorial “Sister Kenny: Problem Child of Medicine”
New York Medicine
(November 20 1946) 2: 413–414.

236.
Ed Sullivan “Little Old New York: I Have News for You”
New York Daily News
December 5 1946; Sullivan “Little Old New York: The Passing Show”
New York Daily News
October 31 1946; see also Cohn
Sister Kenny
, 207.

237.
Marvin Kline to Dear Mr. Sullivan, December 6 1946, Ed Sullivan, 1946–1947, MHS-K.

238.
Winsten “Movie Talk: Movie House Murals as Clean As Pictures Shown on Screen.”

239.
Joe Savage to Dear Jim [James Bryan], November 8 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K.

240.
“The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Discusses the Kenny Question” [January 1947], Public Relations, MOD-K. On “fears that Rosalyn [sic] Russell's motion picture might injure us” John B. Middleton [Regional Director] “Memorandum: Re: Statement on Kenny Drive Activities 1946” to George La Porte, June 26 1946, Public Relations, MOD-K.

241.
“Sister Kenny”
[New York] Motion Picture Daily
July 16 1946.

242.
Dudley Nichols to Dear Sister, April 15 1947, RKO-Misc., 1942–1948, MHS-K. On Russell's recollections that “RKO had a hard time drumming up much enthusiasm among exhibitors” see Russell and Chase
Banquet
, 145–146.

243.
Paul Hollister to Dear Perry [Lieber], April 8 1947, RKO-Misc., 1942–1948, MHS-K; [draft of letter to be signed by Kenny] [enclosed in] Paul Hollister to Dear Perry [Lieber], April 8 1947, RKO-Misc., 1942–1948, MHS-K.

244.
Editorial “Experiment Perilous”
Westchester Medical Bulletin
(November 1946) 14: 25–26, [copy in] Public Relations, MOD-K.