Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nelson Doubleday, 59, shrewd, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
Died. Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, 63, Canadian radiologist famed for his work in cancer diagnosis; of leukemia; in Toronto...
Died. Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, 81, onetime Japanese Navy Minister (militarists forced him to resign after he helped draft the 1930 London Naval Treaty limiting Japanese sea power); of cancer; in Tokyo...
Died. General Yoshijiro Umezu, 66, onetime chief of the Japanese army's general staff (he signed the surrender), convicted as a war criminal and given a life sentence; of cancer; in Tokyo...
...National Cancer Institute awarded the College $30,615 "to support laboratory and clinical research in cancer," Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing announced yesterday. The Institute distributed 18 grants totalling $209,838, of which $20,000 went to the Boston University School of Medicine and $9,000 to Tufts College Medical School...