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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHARLES H. McGuiRE...
Originally, the plan to build a private steam-power plant (under contract with two Southern utility firms, headed by Edgar H. Dixon and the late Eugene A. Yates) to feed the expanding power load of the Tennessee Valley Authority was hailed as part of the President's policy of slowing "creeping socialism." But the White House dropped the plan discreetly, soon after TVA-minded Democrats cried scandal over an apparent conflict of interest: Banker Adolphe H. Wenzell had served at the same time as 1) a vice president of New York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates...
...will find it hard to believe that there was once a Garden of Allah. But it blossomed in lush profusion from the day in 1927 when Nazimova turned her once private domain into a super hostelry; 23 guest villas were added to the great stucco manor house-and an h was added to the mistress' first name, recalling the movie Garden of Allah. Alla objected to the spelling, but her modest protests were drowned in the gin-laced hubbub...
Attempts to devise a blood test for cancer (other than "blood cancers" such as leukemia) have been unrewarding, though Sloan-Kettering now has high hopes based on high levels of a substance called cytolipin H in cancer victims' blood. But even if such a test was reliable, it would not tell the cancer's location. Physicians still rely mainly on traditional diagnostic methods: physical examination, visual inspection of accessible sites with such aids as the proctoscope and bronchoscope, Pap smears and X rays...
...quick succession came the hormones ACTH and cortisone, which also produced brief remissions in acute leukemia (as in some other cancers of the blood and lymphatic system). Then came another antimetabolite. pioneered by Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal of Memorial Center: 6-mercaptopurine, which interferes with cell nutrition by supplying a counterfeit purine. Physicians treating acute leukemia now ring the changes on these, using one until it loses its effect, then switching to another, sometimes back to the first. No child victims of acute leukemia have yet been saved, but Dr. Farber can report a heartening gain. A dozen years...