Word: cancer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lasker, a chic 48, got interested many years ago in the things that kill and disable people. An old friend once asked for a $500 loan to send her mother to a hospital for treatment of cancer. Mrs. Lasker gave her the money, but it was too late. When the money had to be used for the mother's funeral, "that...
...winters ago the Babe went to the hospital. He was desperately ill-cancer-and sport editors everywhere prepared obituaries. But he got back on his feet. Ghostly but smiling, he was well enough to attend a Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium. The Babe said a few words before a damp-eyed throng of 58,339. His speech was piped into baseball parks the U.S. over...
...Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...
Died. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 53, baseball's home-run king; of cancer; in Manhattan (see SPORT...
...with economically orthodox medical thinkers and famed verbal brawls with Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Deutsch agrees with the A.M.A.'s scientific activities, cooperates with the association in exposing fake drugs and quacks, but he delights in the fact that a cancer-cure artist whom both had exposed sued the A.M. A. for only $250,000, Deutsch...