Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life & Death. Suggestive as it is of death (it is second only to heart troubles as top U.S. killer), cancer is in fact life run wild: a multiplication of cells, but in abnormal pattern. The riddle of the disease will not be solved until the secrets of the rebel cells which ravage human tissue are revealed. Meanwhile, the answer must be sought through research in the basic sciences of chemistry, biology and physics...
...author of Huber the Tuber, a Story of Tuberculosis, had a new one on the bookstalls: Corky the Killer, a Story of Syphilis (American Social Hygiene Association; $1). The author (and illustrator) was Dr. Harry A. Wilmer, a young scientist who took five degrees in eight years at the University of Minnesota. His book is a slightly bawdy blend of fact & fancy that seeks by cartoons and comic-strip dialogue to tell about the syphilis spirochete and how it works...
...with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer, go their merry way, presumably troubled by nothing except their consciences...
...Spiral Staircase. A killer stalks Dorothy McGuire (TIME...
...Spiral Staircase. A killer stalks Dorothy McGuire (TIME...