Word: blooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominguin was maneuvering his bull for the picadors when it suddenly charged, sank a horn into his lower abdomen. Struggling up off the sand, Dominguin was doggedly advancing again on the bull, dripping blood, when his helpers scooped him up and carried him to the infirmary. True to the ritual of their craft, Ordonez killed Dominguin's bull, while doctors were examining the battered matador and deciding that he would not be able to resume the mano a mano "for 20 or 30 days...
...York's Trudeau Sanatorium (TIME, Dec. 6,1954), Adirondack Mountain headquarters for tuberculosis research and treatment. After a Boston stint in pathology, Dr. Rhoads joined Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, studied immunity to poliomyelitis. The institute sent him to the tropics to work on diseases of the blood. There he became interested in leukemia, commonest of "blood cancers...
...Rhoads edged closer to the mysteries of cancer in 1939, when he joined Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. The next year he became its director. Then, for the duration, Dr. Rhoads was preoccupied with wartime problems-blood procurement, gas casualties and atom-bomb casualties. There were no gas casualties, but nitrogen mustard and related poisons, unused in war, eased the symptoms and prolonged the lives of some cancer patients. "Dusty" Rhoads revived the idea, then out of medical fashion, that drugs might yet be found to treat and even cure cancer...
Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Seed of Guilt plants Actress Gloria Vanderbilt in a family full of high-style snobbery, lets her harvest the inevitable conflict between a class-conscious grandmother and a candid little granddaughter who does not believe that anybody's blood runs blue...