Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said the agent...
...avoid collapse of the lungs. During World War I (a general while still in his 30s) he developed a method of hooking an artificial arm to the muscles of a stump by means of ivory pegs, so that the muscles operated the fingers. His operations on the heart, in cancer and in bone-grafting are almost equally famous...
...Foundation, as blueprinted, will mobilize 24 top U.S. scientists, who will direct and promote, through grants, loans and scholarships, basic research in all fields of science. Specified by the bill were special commissions for research on cancer, poliomyelitis and heart diseases, and a special division of national defense. Suggested (but not appropriated) by the Congress, as an appropriate annual payroll: $23 million-far short of the $122 million sought in Dr. Bush's original plan for the Foundation...
Died. William Leslie Maxson, 49, jovial, rotund engineer and industrialist; of cancer; in Boston. Maxson, for 15 years a U.S. Navy officer, was blessed by dyers for two big aids in long-distance flying: 1) his invention of a process to precook and quick-freeze complete meals for easy preparation during flight; 2) his "robot navigator," a mechanical computer for quick solution of complex celestial navigation problems...
...Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...