(SCIENTISTS) SALK JONAS; AND ALBERT BRUCE SABIN First Day Co

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(SCIENTISTS.) SALK, JONAS; AND ALBERT BRUCE SABIN. First Day Cover commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Signed by both ("Jonas Salk" and "Albert B. Sabin"), at center. The cachet, showing a girl leaning on crutches and wearing leg brace with children playing in background. With a 3-cent "Honoring Those Who Helped Fight Polio" stamp, cancelled on the 20th anniversary date of the President's Birthday Ball: January 15, 1957. Np, nd

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Although the March of Dimes often promoted Salk's polio vaccine over Sabin's, the latter became more effective in the effort to eradicate the disease worldwide, because it could be administered orally in non-clinical settings.