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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Twin or Fetus. This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rays & Bone Marrow | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Milwaukee's David Previant, 47, framed Teamster constitutions that sapped power from local unions and centralized it in conferences and national officers. CJ Seattle's Sam Bassett, 61, a quarter-century Beck intimate, arranged secret Teamster loans to truckers, joined Teamster officials in borrowing union funds to make a killing on Campbell Soup stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Mouthpiece | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Louis M. Falkson '59 of Dunster House and Newton will serve his first term as Officer at Large and John Bassett '61 of Adams House and Bronxville, N.Y., was elected Treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Union Chooses Officers for Next Fall | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

...stone doorway and looked about her at the reborn All Hallows, The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cullum Welch, was on hand to greet her, and the Bishop of London, Dr. Henry Montgomery Campbell. Thirty of the Winant Volunteers and All Hallows' Assistant Curate John Bassett Frederick, of Cheshire, Conn., stood by while Vicar Clayton escorted the Queen Mother to a chair made from the pulpit door of 1613, and the service of rededication began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All Hallows | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Sign Here. In Bassett, Calif., the district school board ruled that it is all right for a principal to spank a student if 1) the parents approve, 2) the district superintendent approves, and 3 ) "two responsible adults" other than the parents are there to witness the swatting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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