Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington for a 30-min. White House call and a cornerstone ceremony at the new Danish embassy in Dumbarton Oaks. Hansen made a point of sending a get-well message to John Foster Dulles. Unmentioned, but appreciated by the Secretary of State: Hansen recently was found to have throat cancer, apparently conquered it with an operation last October...
...genetic material that controls growth and heredity, this maltreatment often kept cells from dividing, or caused mutations. Dr. Heller's waves are so specific that a change of frequency or pulsing can limit their effect to a single kind of cell, leaving slightly different cells unaffected. Since cancer cells differ from normal cells, there is a chance (which Dr. Heller does not want to talk about) that they can be damaged by radio waves that do not hurt healthy tissue...
Died. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 56, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. (the reaper) McCormick, World War II WAC sergeant who later bought a $900 blue-and-buff colonial uniform to wear in July 4 parades; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
Died. Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Good Eating (listing 3,400 recommended restaurants), Lodging For a Night (4,000 hostelries), and Adventures in Good Cooking, who traveled over 2,000,000 miles tasting food, charged nothing for a listing in his books, $10-$20 a year for rental of a Duncan Hines sign; of cancer; in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1956, Duncan Hines's assorted gastronomic enterprises became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble...