Word: cancers
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...Heinz M. Wuest, 76, supposedly retired but still active in his laboratory as a consultant to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, pointed out that the thalidomide molecule contains both a form of glutamic acid and a form of phthalic acid. Glutamic acid is a common substance, whose derivatives are used as flavor additives for meat and beer. Phthalic acid is an un common drug component moderately irritating to the skin. But, said Wuest, in thalidomide the structural combination of glutamic and phthalic acids is most unusual. Experiments undertaken in three laboratories have shown that this combination causes deformities...
...treating certain types of cancer by radiation, doctors implant little gold "seeds" inside the growths. The seeds are actually hollow gold beads, each containing radon gas. After two or three weeks, the radon's radioactivity is virtually gone. The harmless seeds are left in place, but a few of them may be sloughed off by the body. At Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a nurse saved the seeds sloughed off by the tumor and had the salvaged gold made into a ring for her boy friend. He developed red patches on his finger. Memorial...
Other used seeds have been melted down and the salvaged gold has found its way into rings. In the Journal of the A.M.A., two doctors in northern New York report cancer-type changes caused by a radioactive ring. When a man had a cameo ring remodeled in 1946, the jeweler inserted a piece of "new" gold. After ten years, the man had so much discomfort on his left ring finger that he transferred the ring to his right hand. Eight years later, that finger also was irritated and inflamed, so he stopped wearing the ring. Too late. This year...
Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe...
Died. Kay Francis, 63, one of Hollywood's leading ladies in the 1930s and early '40s; of cancer; in Manhattan. Talking movies were still in their infancy in 1929 when Kay, already established on Broadway, gave the industry a boost by bringing beauty, elegance and warmth to some 50 films (One Way Passage, Trouble in Paradise, I Found Stella Parrish...