Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor James Ewing, foremost U. S. authority on tumors and an ultraconservative scientist, was made the subject of glaring U. S. headlines last week for a speech he made in Madrid. To the Inter national Cancer Congress there he merely said: "Sunlight is one of the greatest causes of cancer. Even trips to the beach often result in skin cancer." The headline transmutation of Professor Swing's qualified statement became positive: "SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER...
Professor Ewing, of course, referred to individuals who are susceptible to cancer and let themselves become too sunburned. Who is susceptible to cancer and who is not. Professor Ewing would never attempt...
...Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate...
...family physician for service to the family of the employe." Figures presented to indicate the extent of the field of factory medicine: 3,000,000 "lost time injuries," 25,000 deaths, 87,000,000 minor injuries, from industrial accidents yearly. Cost: $5,000,000,000 a year. "Cancer is Curable." During the past two years Fellows of the College of Surgeons, at the insistence of Dr. Franklin H. Martin, an organizer of the College* have been keeping track of cases of cancer which have remained cured for five years or longer. Last week the surgeons reported a total...
...Health Association. *Recently published is Surgeon Martin's two-volume autobiography, The Joy oj Living (Doubleday, Doran $7), which yields flashing glimpses of the important surgeons of the past half century. *No kin of Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey of San Francisco who still claims to be alleviating hopeless cancer with adrenal cortex extracts (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931 et ante...