Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chitlins Wit. Marshall, a gregarious storyteller with a dry wit and a healthy thirst for bourbon and water, has been married since 1955 to Hawaiian-born Cecelia Suyat (his first wife died of cancer a year before), and lives in an integrated neighborhood of Southwest Washington.He is equally comfortable drawling earthy tales in a self-mocking, chitlins-and-cornpone Negro dialect or arguing law in meticulously scholarly tones...
...dialogue, who altogether produced 30 books ranging from her first light, breezy novels (Marriage of Harlequin, 1927) to later, more substantial works seeking to make a moral point, notably in the just completed trilogy, Clothes of the King's Son, a mystic parable about good and evil; of cancer; in London...
...Hemingway out of Hollywood, the he-man's he-man and the she-fan's idol. He talks and looks as tough as ever, though it was less than three years ago that he lost a lung while, as he put it, "kicking the Big C (cancer...
Died. Billy Strayhorn, 51, jazz composer and Duke Ellington's strong-though all but invisible-right hand for all these years, who composed such hits as Chelsea Bridge, Johnny Come Lately, and Take the A Train, all of which were commonly identified with Ellington alone; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...whole-wheat bread on doctor's orders to ease her son's asthma, was soon besieged by neighbors and local dealers, and wound up with a business encompassing 57 products and $40 million annual sales before selling out to Campbell Soup in 1961 for $28 million; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...