Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical hero replaces another this week as head of the National Cancer Institute: Virginia-born Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer, 54, succeeds Swiss-born Dr. Carl Voegtlin...
...staff of Henry Ford Hospital formally announced that "death was due to a condition which developed from a former stomach malady for which an operation was performed 16 months ago. Undulant fever was also present." The New York Daily News picked up the rumor that death was due to cancer, pettishly demanded why this was not formally announced, if true. † Stock of the Ford Motor Co, is of two types, voting and nonvoting. The exact ration is on a closely guarded Ford secret, but comparison can be made to the stock structure of Ford Motor Co. of Canada...
Died. Dr. James Ewing, 76, world-honored cancer authority, longtime professor of pathology at Cornell's Medical School (1899-1932); in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, which he directed from 1913 to 1939. He published his land mark cancer text, Neoplastic Diseases, in 1919, after 20 years of tireless, neuralgia-racked labor. He believed in no universal cancer cure, plugged research, early diagnosis...
Most widely touted use has been for treatment of some cancer conditions, and possibly 300 grams have been sold to U.S. hospitals and doctors. But few specialists are expert enough to use it effectively, few are the cases (less than 20%) in which it could be 100% effective no matter what their skill. Moreover, high-voltage X-rays have increasingly replaced radium for use on cancers located in parts of the body accessible to X-ray tubes. And the cyclotron has created a very serious rival, since other minerals can be made radioactive artificially...
...Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that he and Mrs. Harding had dissuaded the President from seeking Congressional action to limit all Presidents to a single six-year term...