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While the Coast Guard began a hopeless search, the Star of Hollywood dropped to 10,000 feet and retraced the 500 miles back to Gander. T.W.A. and other operators ordered their Constellations to keep below 12,000 feet (where the cabin need not be pressurized) until astrodomes could be made safer and navigators supplied with safety harnesses. That was just about what the Army had done...
Hodgkin's disease, an agonizing and hopeless sickness, kills more than 3,000 people a year in the U.S. Doctors know very little about it except that it is 100% fatal. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Antonio Rottino, chief pathologist at St. Vincent's Hospital, announced the formation of a research foundation that will study Hodgkin's disease and try to track down its cause & cure...
...Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience marriage with Widow Dvorak over the scarcely cold body of her husband; frames...
...life worth living after such a drastic operation? Dr. Brunschwig, taking issue with many doctors, answers an emphatic yes. At worst (if the patient survives), such surgery relieves suffering; at best, it may restore a hopeless, lingering invalid to useful work and a nearly normal life...
...hopeless" patients who submitted to Dr. Brunschwig's radical surgery, 34 died within a month. But 49 were greatly helped; of these 19 are still alive, one to ten years after their operations. Among them: a 50-year-old laborer who can do a full day's work though he lacks stomach and spleen...