Word: cancerous
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Died. Sir Malcolm Sargent, 72, Britain's most popular orchestra conductor; of cancer; in London. Known equally as a London bon vivant and baton master, Sargent was lionized in British music circles for four decades. Critics respected the 19th century grandeur that characterized all his work and cheered especially the fioriture he summoned in such choral classics as Handel's Messiah. To audiences, he was "Flash Harry," the impeccably groomed courtier of the orchestra stage, raconteur, and international socialite. His own favorite appearances were at cavernous Royal Albert Hall's immensely popular "prom" annuals, where...
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair...
Died. Robert Hans van Gulik, 57, Dutch creator of the Judge Dee Chinese mystery tales (The Willow Pattern, Murder in Canton); of cancer; in The Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...
...leukemia drug, 6-mercaptopurine. Use of the two drugs in succession, along with prednisone (a cortisone-type hormone) raised the kill to three to five logs. Since 1963, with half a dozen new anti-leukemia drugs available for concurrent or consecutive use, the cell kill achieved in the best cancer centers has reached ten logs, reducing the leukemic-cell count...
Died. Robert E. Woodruff, 83, boss of the Erie Railroad (now Erie-Lack-awanna) from 1939 to 1956; of cancer; in Delray Beach, Fla. "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" was the name for the four-times bankrupt Erie in 1939 when Woodruff, then one of the road's few able executives, took over as a court-appointed trustee. He needed only two years to get the company out of receivership; a year later, as president, he was able to announce a $1 common-stock dividend-first for the hapless Erie in 69 years...