Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after he emerged from the operating room following six hours of surgery at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center last week, Hubert Humphrey asked his wife, "Muriel, how are the polls corning out in Minnesota?" That joshing question by a Senator virtually assured of re-election told as much about his condition as his doctors' optimistic prognosis. Though a cancerous bladder had just been removed, the 65-year-old former Vice President had lost none of his spirit, loquaciousness and will to survive-physically or politically...
Probably 30,000 Americans will find out this year that they have cancer of the bladder, a disease that strikes three times as many men as women. But if it is caught early enough-as it apparently was in Humphrey's case-the odds of beating it are better than even. Convinced that he had removed the entire tumor, a walnut-size growth at the base of the bladder, Humphrey's surgeon, Dr. Willet F. Whitmore, said confidently, "As far as we're concerned, the Senator is cured...
Prompt Treatment. Humphrey's chances were vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination...
Advised by his physicians and encouraged by his friends, including Senator Edward Kennedy, who has been supporting an uphill fight to elect him Senate Democratic leader, Humphrey placed himself in the hands of Memorial's Whitmore. Leading the team of five doctors, Urologist Whitmore performed an extremely difficult operation that he had helped pioneer in the early 1950s with his old mentor, Dr. Victor Marshall of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center...
...Plan. MacDougall, 48, is creative director of Humphrey Browning MacDougall Inc., which has $30 million in annual billings-small potatoes by Manhattan standards but enough to make it Boston's biggest ad agency. He is best known in the advertising community for being the first "to call a jock a jock" in a campaign for Bike brand underwear ("There's nothing like a washed-out jock"). Other successful MacDougall slogans: "It takes two hands to handle a whopper. The two-fisted burger from Burger King"; "Salada-the coffee drinker...