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...Brennan's Judge Bean may not win the 1940 Academy Award, but it will give cinemaudiences a good idea why he is a director's actor. At 46, he is a World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...
...Allen next tried choking off a human tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin around the margin of the tumor, passed rubber ligatures through these openings and tied off the arteries that supplied the tumor with blood. After an hour and a half, when the tumor had darkened slightly, the ligatures were untied...
Four days later Dr. Brennan "burrowed deeply" under the tumor, tied off the arteries again, deprived the tumor of nourishment for three and a quarter hours. Shortly afterward the tumor began to slough off. Normal tissues surrounding the growth, which also had their blood supply cut off, were not injured...
HARVEY R. BRENNAN...
...Corinth, Miss., S.B. Mississippi '40; Frederic W. Anderson, of Richmond Hill, N. Y., S. B. Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn '40; Harry A. Atwater, of W. Medford, S.B. Tutfs '40; William S. Barrett, of Austin, Tex., S.B. Texas '37; Martin E. Barzelay, of Malden, S.B. Northeastern '39; William J. Brennan, of Phenix City, Ala., S.B. Alabama Polytechnic Institute...