If you want to understand the impact of polio — if you want to comprehend the heartbreak polio victims feel about the return of infantile paralysis — if you want to sense the bewilderment that polio ...

It's Friday. And here on MORNING EDITION, that means it's time for StoryCorps. In 1950, Shirley Duhart got polio. She was only 2 years old at the time. And although she struggled to walk, shoes became ...

Memoir to mom, who died 50 years to day after son's diagnosis. Kurt Sipolski, fourth from the left, and his mother Iris Mondy and other members of his family when they lived in Illinois. Courtesy Kurt ...

Shirley Duhart was two years old when she got polio in 1950. She talks to her doctor, Dale Strausserher, about her love of shoes. Though she struggled to walk, shoes became very important to her. It's ...

Shirley Duhart was two years old when she got polio in 1950. She talks to her doctor, Dale Strausserher, about her love of shoes. Though she... 'I'm going to die in these shoes.' Ga. woman loves shoes ...