Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that the study should lead to the banning of saccharine." Dr. Emile Frei, director of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard affiliate, said yesterday. He added that because abnormally high doses of saccharine injected into rodents caused very few cases of cancer, the study does not effectively demonstrate that saccharine is harmful to humans...
...cancer may take five to ten years more to develop in the case of lower doses, but the substance may still be carcinogenic," he said...
Died. Bill Vaughan, 61, author of the Kansas City Star "Starbeams" column, syndicated as "Senator Soaper Says"; of lung cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. For 31 years, Vaughan filled his daily columns with 13 pithy paragraphs. Sample: "People we agree with are calm and enthusiastic; everybody else is apathetic and hysterical...
Died. John Dickson Carr, 70, dapper, scholarly author of more than 100 mystery novels; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C. Under his own name and two pseudonyms (Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson), he created two super sleuths: an Oxford don named Gideon Fell and an engaging buffoon, Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr's specialties were historical mysteries and locked-room murders, involving a corpse found alone in a room sealed from the inside. Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems...
There are confrontations with 1930s left-wing intellectuals and de facto existentialists of the wartime '40s. There is Jed's marriage to an unnervingly placid girl from North Dakota who dies young of cancer. The longest and best-furnished setting of the novel is Nashville, Tenn., during the postwar years. There Tewksbury teaches at a university, bends elbows with the horsy set and conducts the great love affair of his life. Significantly, it is with a girl from his own home town, now married to a rich sculptor. In Rozelle Hardcastle, Warren has forged a considerable Southern heroine...