Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, two days after her 60th birthday, the former First Lady entered the U.S. Naval Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. for a two-to three-week stay, displaying the same remarkable courage that she showed when her right breast was removed because of cancer in 1974. Said she of her current problem: "It's an insidious thing, and I mean to rid myself of its damaging effects. There have been too many things that I have overcome to be forever burdened with this...
...appointment to the nation's highest uniformed post at a time when traditional rotation policy would have turned it over to the Army. Jones will succeed another Air Force general, the controversial and talkative George S. Brown, on July 1. That is when Brown, who is ill with cancer of the prostate will complete his second term...
DIED. Stephen E. Kelly, 58, former publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, Holiday and McCall's and advertising sales director of TIME (1963-64), who fought rising U.S. postal rates of the early 1970s as president of the Magazine Publishers Association; of cancer; in Manhattan...
DIED. Ray Noble, 71, British bandleader, composer and later comedian who stirred as much attention in the 1930s with the clear fidelity of his discs as with his smooth, glossy jazz style; of cancer; in London. Noble used a cavernous sound studio to capture a new resonance when he recorded his popular songs (Goodnight, Sweetheart; By the Fireside; The Very Thought of You), then became an English stooge on American radio with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy...
...between scenes, the proscenium arch lights up, and downstage left a character appears to tell a story about Scottie. It is this theater, "tonight," and we are in the audience "to pay tribute to Scottie Templeton," who is celebrating his 51st birthday and has just emerged from successful cancer treatments in the hospital. At first these interludes seem irritating and gratuitous, as though Slade were trying to disguise a one-set, chronologically ordered comedy by Pirandello-ing it up a bit. But afterwards, you can appreciate how these anecdotes should have worked: this is a tribute to Scottie's life...