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...sphinx-faced Columnist and TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 59-recovering at St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn., from an operation that parted him from an inflamed gall bladder; Bestselling Novelist (Ship of Fools) Katherine Anne Porter, 72, who tripped down a dark flight of stairs in her Washington, D.C., home while calling for a kitten, cracking six ribs; and broad-toothed Comedian Joe E. Brown, 70, in Pittsburgh, Pa., melted by 90° heat while playing the Allegheny County Fair...
...worked most closely on the nuclear chain reactions that made the atomic bomb possible, one, Enrico Fermi, died of cancer. In 1959 the other, Leo Szilard, went to his doctors with a bladder cancer; they could not remove it all. Said Szilard then: "I don't expect to live, but I hope to be active for a few months and perhaps a year." Last week Dr. Szilard, 64, physicist turned biologist and crusader for the abolition of war, quietly noted that he has now gone two full years free of cancer symptoms. "I feel fine," he said...
...uneventful recoveries, with little need for pain-killing drugs. In cases of thyroid removal or hernia operations, the number of doses of opiates was half the usual average and the hospital stay was also cut in half. Hypnosis is less successful in operations such as removal of the gall bladder or part of the stomach. Dr. Kolouch suspects that, besides the severity of the operations, there are other reasons not yet clear...
...major propaganda victory, although the leaders of 24 neutral nations meeting in Belgrade were slow to let their anger rise at the Russians. In the cold war of nerves, the U.S. had won its bet that it could out last the Russians at the test-ban conference table-the "bladder technique.'' as the approach was called by U.S. Negotiator Arthur Dean...
...first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent when speaking of Montaigne himself, whose lifelong preoccupation with his health (notably kidney stones) leads Durant to a typical, one-sentence appraisal: "He sought the philosopher's stone and found it lodged in his bladder...