Tom Loyless 1872618 173043361 2007-11-22T04:03:32Z DO11.10 761044 rem. duplicate info, +wikilinks +cat '''Tom W. Loyless''' (?? - 1925/6) is now best known as the managing owner of the [[Warm Springs, Georgia|Warm Springs]] [[spa town|spa]] resort (for which his financial backer was [[George Foster Peabody]]). He was also a [[newspaper]] [[reporter]], [[editing|editor]] and [[publisher]], and was editor of the ''[[Macon, Georgia|Macon]] Telegraph''. After a young man suffering from [[polio]] discovered that the springs helped him, Loyless attracted the attention of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], who also suffered from polio, and brought him to Warm Springs. Roosevelt decided that Warm Springs could help polio victims, and he worked with Loyless on improvements to Warm Springs, His role is portrayed in the [[2005 in film|2005]] movie ''[[Warm Springs (film)|Warm Springs]]'', where he was played by [[Tim Blake Nelson]]. The movie gives the impression that he was no longer active in newspapers at the time of Roosevelt's visits, but in fact he was still involved, and convinced Roosevelt to help him out as guest editor. Actually, Roosevelt probably did not have polio. Using [[Bayesian analysis]], a study published in 2003 found that six of eight [[posterior probabilities]] favored a diagnosis of [[Guillain-Barré]] syndrome (an [[autoimmune]] [[peripheral neuropathy]]) over poliomyelitis. <ref>Goldman, AS ''et al'', [http://www.rsmpress.co.uk/jmb_2003_v11_p232-240.pdf ''What was the cause of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's paralytic illness?'']. J Med Biogr. 11: 232-240 (2003)</ref> ==References== <references/> ==External links== * [http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/FDRvisit.htm Franklin D. Roosevelt's Visits to Georgia] * [http://newdeal.feri.org/speeches/1934g.htm Extemporaneous Remarks at Thanksgiving Day Party at Warm Springs, Georgia] [[Category:American businesspeople]] [[Category:Poliomyelitis]] {{US-business-bio-stub}}