Word: hodgkins
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Bruce is more victim than hero, the means whereby Pitcher Henry Wiggen, the narrator of Bang, can make his point that ballplayers belong to the fraternity of men. Bruce has Hodgkin's disease, and any moment may be his last. That is why Ace Pitcher Wiggen makes it part of his contract that Bruce must be kept on with the Mammoths as long as he is. That is why the players who had got their kicks out of riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that...
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...
...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...