Word: cancer
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...artist, a Crimson editor, Quincy House gardener, and a member of the House Dramatic Club. He was also an outstanding scholar who won numerous distinctions during his academic career. That career was tragically cut short on January 28, when Rodney Perry died after a year-long battle against cancer. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family and friends...
Died. Bernard ("Toots") Shor, 73, Runyonesque saloonkeeper and drinking companion to the mighty and famous; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boisterous and beefy (250 lbs., 6 ft. 2 in.), Shor in his heyday would customarily quaff a bottle of brandy a night at the 54-ft. circular bar of his original Manhattan bistro. "Drinkin', that's my way of prayin'," he would say. Shor was a star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more...
Japanese brain surgeons have performed experimental operations using radioactive borane compounds in cancer therapy, Lipscomb said. The boranes have proved especially effective in treating brain tumors, he said...
...uproar provoked by the attempted elimination of 4-year housing is completely justified and must command the support of all progressive forces within the University. Fox's hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic...
Died. Ruth G. Wakefield, 73, creator of the tollhouse chocolate-chip cookie; of cancer; in Plymouth, Mass. In 1930 Wakefield and her husband opened an inn in an old tollhouse on the Boston-to-New Bedford road. One day she decided to add chocolate bits cut from a semisweet bar to liven up her mother's cookie recipe. The creation was an instant success. During World War II, millions of tollhouse cookies were shipped to servicemen overseas...