Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Fred Waller, 68, veteran Hollywood special-effects man, who after 13 years perfected Cinerama in 1951, first showed it to the public in Manhattan 20 months ago (total box-office receipts to date: $10 million); of Hodgkin's disease; in Huntington...
...correspondent for the London Daily Mail and one of Britain's most scholarly newsmen; in London. In World War II, he covered the fall of France, the North African campaign, the Normandy invasion and the Greek civil war. While touring Germany in 1950, he learned that he had Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymph nodes), never discussed it with anyone but his wife (daughter of Author Robert Graves) and a few intimates. Without slackening his work, he continued to rove European capitals for news, visited the U.S., wrote a book on Soviet-Western relations. Last week, minutes...
...last week, and the first patients trooped in for examinations and checkups. All were boys & girls for whom, until about five years ago, medical science could offer little or no comfort. They were victims of generalized cancers such as leukemia (in the blood stream) or the spreading type of Hodgkin's disease (in the lymph nodes). Now there is at least good reason for hoping that their lives can be made both brighter and longer...
Next day, after two more planes had dropped survival gear, Hodgkin got worried about all the money being wasted on him. "I just pulled the tie ropes, gave the ship a shove downhill and away I went, just like an eagle." The B-17 flew over again. "The bird's flown the coop," its radio cackled. Hodgkin, still unable to start his engine, had calmly dead-sticked in to a landing on a frozen lake, 9,071 feet below...
...Force talked about a court-martial. The National Park people muttered darkly about a $500 fine for flyers who go around landing on their mountain tops-their rescue team was stuck up on the icy peak. Said Hodgkin: "I think Americans are beginning to lose their self-reliance. I'd be glad to fly back up there and get them...