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...Died. Dr. Harold Fred Dorn, 56, statistician of the U.S. National Institutes of Health whose 1958 study of 198,926 service veterans showed an increase among smokers in the number of deaths due to lung cancer (six times as many deaths for all smokers, nine times as many for cigarette smokers), and led to the U.S. Public Health Service's acknowledgement in 1959 that cigarettes were a cause of cancer; of cancer of the kidney; in Bethesda...
...Arizona location, Air Force Reserve Colonel James Stewart, playing an Army major in a blood-and-mud World War II movie titled Mountain Road, stepped front and center, got an almost-legal field promotion. The film's technical adviser, retired Army Brigadier General Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since...
Quite a few Democrats, it turned out, were just as unhappy about Paul Butler. Before the next morning's explosive headlines had grown cool, the Capitol dome began to sound like a hive of angry bees. "Mr. Butler should resign," cried South Carolina's William Jennings Bryan Dorn. "He evidently thinks all of the thinking and planning of the Democratic Party should be done by himself and his liberal gang." Mister Sam was a man of few words: "We'll just let Mr. Butler stew...
Divorced. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa) actor; by Actress Dolores Dorn-Heft Tone, 23, his fourth wife; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...these cases were followed through the mountainous files of the Veterans Administration. The Dorn-VA technique: whenever a claim was filed to collect insurance, investigators double-checked both the primary cause of death and other contributory diseases with the physician who signed the death certificate, and (if possible) with the results of post-mortem examinations. Where the Hammond-Horn study had been attacked by the tobacco industry as statistically unsound because of the investigators' bias, the Dorn-VA investigation could not be assailed on the same ground, although even before formal publication it was criticized by industry spokesmen...