Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancer Ward...
...have been told that your magazine reported that 1 have transmitted abroad Solzhenitsyn's last novel, Cancer Ward [May 31]. I categorically deny this. I have not been in the Soviet Union since 1964. This novel was finished in 1966. I don't personally know Solzhenitsyn, whom I admire deeply. And had I had an opportunity to publish his work, it would have been morally impossible for me to act against his will...
Died. Sir Herbert Read, 74, poet, critic and catholic thinker; of cancer; in Stonegrave, England. An outspoken pacifist prior to World War I, Read nonetheless joined the Royal Army in 1915, won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for heroism in the trenches. He preferred the romantic poets when everyone from Hemingway to T. S. Eliot was joining the Lost Generation, and explained abstract art when its meaning eluded many...
...learns that her mother may have cancer. She has lunch with a bitchy girl friend from Montreal who tells her that one of her former husbands is a suicide. She and her present husband make love enjoyably (it is a fine touch that Mary thinks of men in dim and stereotyped terms, as if seen by a self-obsessed woman...
Died. James H. Rand Jr., 81, co-founder of Remington Rand Inc. and the merger genius who helped create the giant Sperry Rand Corp.; of cancer; in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. "Go out and make a living!" Rand Sr., founder of the Rand Ledger Co., brusquely told his business-minded son in 1915. Rand proceeded to turn a borrowed $10,000 into the American Kardex Co., which marketed a filing cabinet he had invented, then in 1925 merged with his father's company, and in 1927 with the Remington Typewriter Co. The final merger, with the Sperry Corp...