Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Muldoon, 88, "Old Roman" and "Iron Duke" of U. S. sport, longtime member of New York State's Athletic Commission; of cancer of the prostate gland; at Purchase, N. Y. As world's Graeco-Roman wrestling champion in the 1880's, he successfully defended his title against Clarence Whistler, "The Kansas Demon," in three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion...
...build a hospital and medical school. German refugees would have staff opportunities with both. Bernhard Zondek, Berlin gynecologist who helped devise a positive test for pregnancy, has invitations from Stockholm and Leyden. Safely back in Manhattan, where he is a naturalized U. S. citizen, is Gustav Bucky, Berlin cancer specialist. Another able medical emigre in Manhattan is Professor Leopold Lichtwitz, authority on metabolism. A group of Manhattan doctors is warily looking for other able German-Jews to bring into U. S. Medicine...
TIME'S story reported the opening of a cancer clinic in the muliebral New York Infirmary for Women and Children, did not go into the history of women's medical schools. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania has graduated some able women physicians, among them twelve fellows of the American College of Surgeons, eight fellows of the American Col- lege of Physicians. Among notable graduates, apart from Woman's Medical's own able faculty, are Professors Elizabeth Bass (Tulane College of Medicine), Rachelle S. Yarros (Illinois College of Medicine), Edith P. Mols (Florida State College...
...Cancer clinics attached to hospitals are new kinds of forts in the war against cancer. Cancer leaders like Dr. Ewing have been urging multi-million dollar fortresses, currently out of the question. But small clinics are realizable and in the aggregate they can study vast numbers of patients effectively...
...Sara Josephine Baker, 50, Manhattan pediatrician, and Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, 70, Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician, as outstanding practitioners. They point to Chicago's Dr. Gladys R. Henry Dick for her scarlet fever work (with her husband) and Maude Slye, 54, who, although no doctor, is an eminent cancer researcher...