Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently I heard a young doctor say: "I cannot understand how the American people can pour millions of dollars a year into funeral wreaths, and yet hesitate at giving a fraction of that amount for cancer research." Your article on funeral extravagances spurs me to pass along a relevant suggestion...
Died. Ernst Emil Herzfeld, 68, German-born archeologist famed for his triumphs among the ruins of Persepolis; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland. Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery...
Stalin was back. Since last summer, he had hardly been glimpsed by the public. Rumors had him paralyzed, deposed, dead. When a Swedish cancer specialist flew to Moscow last month, U.S. newspapers started brushing up their Stalin obituaries...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...
Death from gastric cancer, Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...