Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...died in her sleep last week at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. Only 2½ years old, Julie made surgical history by living for a record 13 months after a liver transplant, the most difficult organ transfer yet attempted. Death resulted from a recurrence of the cancer that first made the transplant necessary. The postmortem showed the new liver, despite some cancerous invasion, worked well to the last...
Died. William Talman, 53, stern-faced district attorney of the Perry Mason TV series, who lost all 252 of his cases during the show's nine-year run; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
Died. Cy Walter, 53, noted supper-club pianist, whose graceful, stylized renditions of such popular tunes as Begin the Beguine were a feature of Manhattan's night life for some 30 years, most recently at the Drake Hotel; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Died. Paul Egan, 69, mayor of Aurora, Ill., from 1953 to 1961, whose antics drew national attention to the city of lights; of cancer; in Aurora. "When I first ran for mayor," said Egan, "they tried to prove I was crazy." He did little to prove otherwise, fired Aurora's entire police force (they refused to quit), called Khrushchev to enlist Red cops (no answer), and once demanded federal troops to put down an insurrection in the city council...
...attack; in Washington, D.C. As head of FDA, Larrick fought for stiffer regulations of food additives, in 1961 prevented the sale of thalidomide because the drug was believed to cause deformed babies, and in 1963 cracked down on the sponsors of Krebiozen, whose claim that their medicine could cure cancer was proved groundless after extensive tests...