Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linda Epping, 8, was afflicted with a rare, virulent form of cancer. Specialists said that removal of her left eye and all surrounding tissue was the only way to save her life. After her frightened parents heard that news in Los Angeles in 1961, they were understandably interested, they said, when Chiropractor Marvin Phillips declared: "I can cure your child without surgery, absolutely...
...eleven, had worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...
...David Lloyd George, who inherited his passionate attachment to the underdog, serving in Parliament for 31 years, first as a reform-minded Liberal M.P. from North Wales, then in 1955 bolting her father's party, which she felt was too right-wing, to become a Labor M.P.; of cancer; in Criccieth, Wales...
Died. Robert F. Allen, 29, Tucson insurance salesman who two months ago participated in a daring operation aimed at arresting his bone cancer by swapping diseased tissue with another bone cancer victim, Pennsylvania Salesman Harry T. Griffith; in Tucson, Ariz., two weeks after Griffith succumbed...
Bartok & Hysteria. Simone de Beauvoir did not spring, like Minerva, full armed from the head of Jove. She had a mother, and the bitter title of her book was a nursing nun's obituary of Mme. de Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked...