Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Theodore Bilbo died of cancer last summer (TIME, Sept. i), it did not mean that Mississippi was out of demagogues. Poodle-haired Congressman John E. Rankin automatically succeeded him. Rankin thought he might succeed almost as easily to Bilbo's seat in the U.S. Senate. Apparently he thought wrong...
...were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
Manhattan's huge Memorial Hospital, now the world's biggest cancer center, calls itself the first "cancer university." Its faculty includes surgeons, physicians, chemists, mathematicians, physicists, atomic scientists. Its students are cancer specialists from nearly every nation on earth. Its subject of study: more than 17,000 patients a year...
...Cancer...
...Surgery for cancer...