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HON. W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
Honorary Clzairlnan

ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
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DEEMS TAYLOR

Chairman, Program Committee

Honorary Commit!”

HON. CLINTON P. ANDERSON
VINCENT ASTOR

HON. ALBEN W. BARKLEY
HON. BERNARD M. BARUCH
JACK BENNY

IRVING BERLIN

HON. FRANCIS BIDDLE
HON. CHESTER BOWLES
HON. CHARLES F. BRANNAN
CASON J. CALLAWAY

EDDIE CANTOR

HON. OSCAR CHAPMAN
GENERAL MARK W. CLARK
HON. TOM C. CLARK
GENERAL LUCIUS D. CLAY
HON. WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS
HON. JAMES A. FARLEY
MARSHALL FIELD

LINCOLN FILENE

SAMUEL GOLDWYN
WILLIAM GREEN

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, II
HON. CORDELL HULL

ERIC JOHNSTON

W. ALTON JONES

MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER
HON. HERBERT H. LEHMAN
HON. J. HOWARD McGRATI-I
GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL
HON. HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR.
PHILIP MURRAY

HON. FRANK PACE, JR.

HON. SAMUEL RAYBURN
RICHARD RODGERS

HON. CARLOS P. ROMULO
HON. ANNA M. ROSENBERG
LEWIS S. ROSENSTIEL

HON. CHARLES SAWYER
DORE SCHARY

SPYROS P. SKOURAS

HON. JOHN W. SNYDER
ROGER W. STRAUS

HON. JOHN L. SULLIVAN
HON. MYRON C. TAYLOR
DANIEL J. TOBIN

HON. MAURICE J. TOBIN
GENERAL HOYT S. VANDENBERG
MRS. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT
HON. FRANK C. WALKER
HARRY M. WARNER
THOMAS J. WATSON

R. W. WOODRUFF

DARRYL F. ZANUCK

(In Formation)

BENEFIT OF THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
BASIL O’CONNOR, President
COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS

9 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
NEW YORK 20, N.Y.

COLUMBUS 5-7460

November 17, 1953

Mr. W. Hugh Peal
25 Broadway
New York h, N.Y,

Dear Mr. Peal:

May I express my sincere gratitude to you for accepting my in-
vitation to join the many thousands of Americans who revere
Franklin D. Roosevelt and who believe his memory should be kept
alive.

As you may recall, for over a decade the Birthday Ball had
marked our late President's anniversary for the benefit of polio
victims. Since his death, our Committee has undertaken to lead
this traditional nationwide Observance in the form of a Memorial
Concert to be held for the ninth consecutive year in the Grand
Ballroom of The waldorf—Astoria on January 30th.

As a member of the Honorary Committee, you are not obligated to
attend the Concert. However, if you would like to participate
tangibly, we invite you to give through this Committee and attend

the Concert which will be another outstanding event with Deems Taylor
presiding. Keeping pace with the late President's birthday

(he would have been 72 years old had he lived) we are forming the
"72" Club. A Special section is set aside for "?2" Club members

who contribute or raise funds in multiples of $72 for polio.

This coming year has been designated by the National Foundation as
"the year of attack" -— the year we must take full advantage of
the significant strides made by research. The whole pattern of
the polio fight has changed from defense to attack and this attack
toward a visible goal is very costly. Very soon some half million
children will participate in a massive field study to test the
validity of a new polio vaccine. Therefore, it will be the most
critical year ever faced by the Foundation, for in addition to

the vaccine program, patient care must continue and injections of
gamma globulin must continue on an intensified basis.

The urgent demands of the Foundation make it necessary for the
Committee to bend every effort to make the "72“ Club the most
successful tribute ever to the late President. I am enclosing a
membership card and look forward to your support of the organization
that was closest to the heart of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Sincerely yours,

Robert E. Sherwood