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She was an art major before getting married at Florida State University [5] and had started art school in Jacksonville in 1950. She was working at the shipyard in Jacksonville at the time when she became ill. The disease totally destroyed and paralyzed all but a few facial and neck muscles. [4]
Lupino's major symptoms persisted for only a brief period of time, leaving her with minor problems in her leg and hand. She remained a supporter of causes to fight the disease, and Never Fear was released in 1949, the year with America's highest-ever recorded total of polio cases. [ 2 ]
Paralyzed due to a fall in 2005. [22] Curtis Mayfield (1942–1999) – Soul singer/songwriter, paralyzed in a stage accident in 1990. [23] Guy McElroy (1948–1990) – American art historian and curator [24] Elena Mukhina (1960–2006) – Soviet gymnast and 1978 World AA Champion, paralyzed as a result of an under-rotation in a practice ...
A series of images from the era have emerged more than a decade after they were almost thrown away.
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Peters was born Suzanne Carnahan on July 3, 1921, in Spokane, Washington, the elder of two children born to Robert and Abby Carnahan. [2] Her father was a civil engineer of Irish descent, while her mother was of French descent, and a grand-niece of Robert E. Lee. [3]
In 2010, Rachelle Friedman Chapman was 24 years old when she got into an accident on the evening of her bachelorette party. The accident left her paralyzed from the chest down.Five years later ...
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