Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember a worrisome young man who, one day, came back from the roentgenoscopic room wringing his hands and trembling with fear. It is all up with me.' he said. 'The X-ray man said I have a hopeless cancer of the stomach.' Knowing that the roentgenologist would never have said such a thing, I asked, 'Just what did he say?' and the answer was that on dismissing him, the roentgenologist said to an assistant, 'N.P.' In Mayo Clinic cipher this meant 'no plates,' and indicated that the roentgenologist was so satisfied...
...burglars and gunmen. He teaches Ernie the fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress...
...miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia with 1) a blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death (from cancer). The double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that one of life's more solemn mysteries is sold at cut rate by Claudia's magnificat when she finds she is about to have a baby: "God is swell...
...worse killer than cancer, high blood pressure each year causes the death of countless thousands of its estimated 6,000,000 U.S. victims. Last week a reassuring new manual for laymen reported that modern medicine can do much to tame the disease. Written by able specialist Dr. Irvine Heinly Page of Indianapolis this extraordinarily readable book (Hypertension; Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill.; $1.50) is calculated to calm most panicky patients...
Died. Harold Edmund Stearns, 52, author, journalist, drinker, the '20s senior American in Paris; of cancer; in Hempstead...