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...would still be an inspiring story. The unseeded Blake, 25, who last year broke his neck after slamming his head into a the metal net post in Rome, lost his father, Thomas, to cancer, and contracted a stress-triggered virus that paralyzed his face, had made it to the fourth round of the U.S. Open, upsetting the second-ranked player in the world, Nadal, along...
...home in nearby White River Junction, Vt., Levenson drives to Dartmouth-Hitchcock in his 1988 stick-shift Chevrolet Nova. He does all his murals--for which he charges only the cost of materials--in the oncology section because his mother and the first of his three wives died of cancer. "The patients' conversations feed me--they keep me alert," says Levenson, who places an empty chair next to his easel to invite kibitzing while he works...
...stimulation is mutual. "Sol is nothing short of spectacular," says Dr. Eugen Hug, chief of radiation oncology at the cancer center. "His sheer presence and energy are inspiring to everyone. When you see someone his age having this tremendous mental agility and creativity, he becomes a role model, whether he wants to or not." Radiation oncology nurse Anita Concilio believes that Levenson "reminds patients that life goes on, even with a cancer diagnosis. That he is working into his mid-90s and has so much to offer gives us all hope...
...patient who was particularly inspired by Levenson was Janice Munro, a former nurse who had bilateral breast cancer. When Munro arrived for her first radiation session four years ago, she spotted Levenson in the corner, painting. "There was so much energy and life in those murals, and that's what I wanted back in my life," she recalls. "When I looked at his murals, I forgot about the cancer and felt healthy. He lives life to its fullest every single day, and I realized that's what I had to do too." Today Munro, 62, acts as Levenson's assistant...
...shared a prodigious partnership at work - Anderson once said they worked so well together because "he thinks I'm better than him at what we do, and I think he's better than me" - and two daughters at home. There seemed much more to come, until Anderson died of cancer in 2002, at just 51. After that, "I didn't want to make films anymore," Connolly says. "I didn't want to do anything...