Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cancer, there is even less hope: 92 to 98% of patients with known stomach cancer are doomed to die within five years. If caught in time, cancer can be cured by surgery, but by the time stomach cancer is detected, 80% of its victims are beyond the point where an operation will do much good...
...American stomach, A.M.A.'s doctors agreed, is not in very good condition. Ulcers are on the increase, up some 4% since the beginning of the war. Stomach cancer, a closely related horror (many diagnosed "ulcers" turn out to be cancers), now kills 38,000 U.S. citizens a year -or one every 13.8 minutes. The doctors gloomily admitted that they have made small progress with either disease...
Died. Adrienne Ames, 39, onetime cinemactress, chitchat radio commentator (on Manhattan's WHN); of cancer; in Manhattan...
Died. Baron Georg von Trapp, 67, World War I chief of Austria's tiny submarine fleet, manager and nonsinging head of the Trapp Family Singers; of cancer, in Stowe, Vt. The choir (buxom Baroness von Trapp, seven daughters and two sons), ran away from the Nazis in 1938, became a top U.S. concert attraction...
...garish-colored lights, jukebox fashion. With head pointing north, the patient receives "tonations" at favorable times of the day, with a "Favorscope," which is supposed to correct unfavorable "solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute...