Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter-of-fact attitude toward her mastectomy saved lives by bringing breast cancer out of the shadows into the light of public discussion and understanding. WE LOVE BETTY placards sparkle in every crowd the President draws, and audiences break into applause at the mention of her name...
...Cicely Saunders of London, her Anglican faith is essential to her work in the St. Christopher's Hospice she founded there. Like Mother Teresa's Nirmal Hriday, it is a home for the dying-cancer patients whom Dr. Saunders treats with heroin and other drugs to ease the pain of their last days. The hospital is cheerful, even gay; patients nibble sweets, chat with visitors, have a drink if they want to. Dr. Sanders, 59, concedes that she could not maintain that atmosphere nor watch her patients die without her faith. "It makes a difference as a very...
That sort of callousness is about what people with cancer can expect, according to Hildegard Knef. She has it and lives Proust's horrid little scene. She is in a consulting room when fear engulfs her. "I'll see you at the gala," the doctor assures her. "I'm afraid you won't," she says. "Now, now, now, fresh air, enjoy life and love" is the advice...
Died. Jacob Nelson Fox, 47, pepperpot second baseman who was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1959 when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first league championship in 40 years; of skin cancer; in Baltimore. With the White Sox from 1950, "Nellie" Fox made his reputation as a player who liked to hit with an old-fashioned milk-bottle-shaped bat, chew a giant wad of tobacco, and hang a red bandana from the hip pocket of his uniform. Nicknamed "Mighty Mite," the diminutive Fox led the American League in most seasons (twelve) with...
Died. Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 69, oldest child and only daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; of cancer; in New York City. When she was 15 and her father was stricken with poliomyelitis, the devoted Anna became his helper and ultimately his close associate. In 1926 she married Curtis B. Ball, a New York stockbroker, whom she divorced after eight years and two children. She next married John Boettiger, a Chicago Tribune correspondent and acrimonious critic of the New Deal. The couple moved to Seattle, where he became publisher of the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and she edited the women...