Operation Lollypop Ends--I. B. McFarland, chairman of Houston Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, presents cluster of lollypops to Connie Barlow, 5, 33,000th child to be injected here in historic tests aimed at establishing the effectiveness of gamma globulin as a protection against paralytic polio. Injected children got a lollypop for their pains, but Connie hit jackpot because she drew lucky number.
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Operation Lollypop Ends--I. B. McFarland, chairman of Houston Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, presents cluster of lollypops to Connie Barlow, 5, 33,000th child to be injected here in historic tests aimed at establishing the effectiveness of gamma globulin as a protection against paralytic polio. Injected children got a lollypop for their pains, but Connie hit jackpot because she drew lucky number.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1952]

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