Word: hodgkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commencement exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...
Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for her determination of the structure of Vitamin B12. She has also determined the X-ray structure of penicillin. Politically, Mrs. Hodgkin is probably the most left-leaning of the honorary degree recipients...
...least five and ten years for a heartening number of patients. In cancer cases, such remissions are considered tantamount to cure. Last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan an internation al gathering of radiologists heard that this improvement is now being accomplished for many victims of Hodgkin's disease and related cancers. The higher cure rate, they heard, can be extended not only to greater numbers of Hodgkin's patients, but to others suffering from a variety of cancers...
...Hodgkin's and three kindred diseases may appear to be distinct entities at certain stages, but in fact they blend into each other. So, Dr. Nobler declared, the thing to do now is to ignore these distinctions and get on with the supervoltage treatment. That way, ten-year survival rates for Hodgkin's patients treated early have been pushed as high as 68% and five-year rates to 80% at some centers...
CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight...