Paul Alexander, who was confined to an iron lung due to polio since 1952, passes away at age 78.

Paul Alexander, recognized by the Guinness World Records for the longest survival with an iron lung, has passed away. At Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston, Mass., during the height of the city's polio epidemic on Aug. 16, 1955, medical personnel were captured amidst rows of iron lung machines. It was in one of these machines that...