"I was an intern working in the clinic rotation, and Vanderbilt had one of the nation's first trials of the injectable Salk vaccine--field trials.  So that came in, and the very day that it came in--the very first patient--I was the internist.  'Well, Bob, this is your baby, you give the first shot.'  So I gave the child, the young child, the first Salk shot in Vanderbilt, at least--and maybe--anyway.  So that was a very nice thing to think about a vaccine that would do something about polio.  The polio ward was full of rocking beds."

"Nancy was a brilliant, very intelligent, but also intellectually-inspired student.  She was not just passing or studying to pass her courses.  She was an intellectual person, and she loved speaking French, and it later got her at the World's Fair in the American Pavilion speaking French fluently."