Graduated With Honors--Seventeen-year-old Phyllis Goodman, a polio victim since she was one year old, smiles as she receives diploma as an honor graduate of Samuel J. Tilden High School here today. Looking on is her mother, Mrs. Louis Goodman. The girl's body is almost entirely encased in a plaster cast.
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Graduated With Honors--Seventeen-year-old Phyllis Goodman, a polio victim since she was one year old, smiles as she receives diploma as an honor graduate of Samuel J. Tilden High School here today. Looking on is her mother, Mrs. Louis Goodman. The girl's body is almost entirely encased in a plaster cast.

Associated Press · [ca. February 1948]

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