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...CANCER. A challenging case treated by Dr. William G. Cahan at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center involved a cancer of the tongue, 2 in. by 1¼ in., in an 84-year-old man. After only a mouthwash sort of anesthesia, Dr. Cahan froze the surface of the cancer. Later he inserted the liquid nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank...
...things turned out unhappily. The modern dancers who interpreted the New York premiere of Hovhaness' Meditations of Orpheus danced nimbly and well, but the choreography failed to suggest much beyond a battle over a nightgown. The gown was worn by Eurydice (Dancer Cora Cahan) over flesh-colored tights and, as New York Daily News Critic Douglas Watt observed, it seemed Orpheus wanted it. (P.S.: He got it.) Excerpts from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G were deformed by the Philharmonic's raucous and jarring performance...
...Scholars. That purpose was to tell the Jewish immigrant, in his own language, about life in the bewildering new world. During its early years the Forward had a strong Socialist bent, but its paternalism was even stronger. "Since when is Socialism opposed to clean noses?" said the late Ab Cahan, editor from 1902 until his retirement in 1950, after some party member objected to an editorial that urged mothers to keep their kinderle stocked with clean handkerchiefs. Socialist polemics were leavened with simple lessons on civics, American history and the Constitution. Readers ventilated their problems in "Bintel Brief"-literally, bushels...
Died. Abraham Cahan, 91, author (The Rise of David Levinsky), co-founder and editor (1897-1950) of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward (circ. 150,000), one of the most influential foreign-language (Yiddish) papers in the U.S. At 21, because of his radical political sympathies, he left Czarist Russia for Manhattan's lower East Side. Through the columns of the Forward, he presented democratic socialism as well as lighter reading in terms that ill-educated immigrants could understand, fought to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in the garment trades, became a leading anti-Communist in the Jewish world...
...Editor Cahan, whose Socialism long ago simmered down to a British type of gradualism, fought the Soviet system and the U.S. Communist Party from the start, got read out of the Socialist Party for good in 1933 for supporting Roosevelt. At Cahan's celebration last week, Union Boss David Dubinsky and others praised him as the man who had done more than anyone else to keep the garment workers' union free of Communist influence. When everyone else had finished, old Ab rose to respond, murmured: "I am happier than I ever was in my life. Brothers and sisters...