Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Miller, whose Paris-published novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn have stirred intelligentsiacs to as much prurient curiosity and as much sour criticastery as any novels since James Joyce's Ulysses, published an appeal for charity in the New Republic. He said he wanted contributions of old clothes ("love corduroys") and watercolor materials. In Beverly Glen, near Los Angeles, the 52-year-old, free-loving, free-sponging American-from-Paris had been destitute for months. Recently he had taken up painting...
...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Died. Radclyffe Hall, 57, monocled authoress of 1929's bestselling, Lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness; of cancer; in London...
...When the examination [of a young farmer] failed to reveal anything, I said to him, 'If I were to tell you that you have no ulcer or cancer, and that there is no reason to expect one in the future, and if I were to assure you that this ache is due only to a little arthritis around your spine which may bother you off & on for years without bringing you to any bad end, what would you do?' His answer delighted me. He said, 'I'd say, to hell with...
...even a glance at the patient would have prevented; 7) some patients, the "constitutional inadequates," are victims of an "ineradicable disease" and there is no use spending your time and their money trying to make them healthy; 8) always tell a patient the truth (avoiding, if possible, the word "cancer"); 9) dismiss pigheaded, stupid patients who will not take advice while they are still friendly; 10) do not let it break your morale when you make a diagnostic mistake-"I just say to myself that I did the best I knew...