Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toronto's controversial Dr. Gordon Murray performed the first blue-baby operations and kidney transplants in Canada and says he built the first workable artificial kidney in North America. At one time, Dr. Murray claimed to have a serum that alleviated the suffering of breast-cancer victims, although its effectiveness was never proved. Last week, at 73, Dr. Murray reported that he had accomplished a feat that has eluded specialists in neurosurgery. He has, he said, successfully rejoined severed spinal cords in four of seven paralyzed patients...
...citation in public service went to Florida's Democratic Representative Claude Pepper, 67, a congressional partisan of medical legislation for 30 years. It was Pepper, then a Senator, who co-sponsored legislation in 1937 that created the National Cancer Institute, the first of the National Institutes of Health, funded with a then grand budget of $400,000 a year. The institutes, now eight innumber, and the Bureau of Mental Health are provided with a combined yearly budget of $1.5 billion...
Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...
...very highly readable. It is still amusing to hear, in Woolf's tone of melancholy malice, how "Tom" Eliot confessed that he had "behaved like a priggish, pompous little ass" on a weekend. And it is still poignant to learn that Sigmund Freud, ravaged by terminal cancer of the mouth and giving the appearance of "a half-extinct volcano," presented Virginia Woolf with a flower...
Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...