Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joan K. McCoy...
...egos of writers, Cerf discovered, were as big as his own. George Bernard Shaw refused to let him put St. Joan into an anthology until he was promised a fee twice as large as O'Neill's-whatever that was. "Isn't that pretty babyish?" Cerf shot back. "All right, it's babyish," Shaw agreed, not at all put out by his effrontery. "Do you want it or don't you? Twice as much." Cerf paid...
Died. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 49, younger brother of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; of a heart attack; at his estate in Florence, Italy. A dashing, fun-loving sportsman, Charles was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality. In 1967 he wed Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of former U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon...
Only a few days before she was to marry her college sweetheart, Joan, 23, received shocking news. Her Wasserman test had turned out positive, indicating that she might have syphilis. Refusing to believe those results, she promptly demanded and got another examination-which confirmed that she did not have syphilis. The "false positive" had been caused by a more serious ailment: the baffling-and as yet incurable-disease of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which afflicts perhaps half a million people...
...Still, there has been progress in fighting the disease. Says Dr. Morris Ziff, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas: "Most lupus victims can now expect to live reasonably decent lives." One reason: improved blood tests are letting doctors diagnose lupus earlier than ever. (As in Joan's case, the Wasserman test often turns up lupus quite accidentally.) Another reason: prompt detection has been accompanied by introduction of more effective treatments...