Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official. After the rumors and the denials, Aly Khan announced in Deauville that his wife, Princess Margarita (known to millions as Rita Hayworth), was indeed expecting a baby...
...Owenses went a step farther. Vitamin A apparently increases the infant's need for vitamin E, but at the same time it decreases the natural supply of E. In addition, iron added to the prematures' diet to prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...
...either alone or in conjunction with surgery). When the treatment is successful, the malignancy is arrested both at its original site in the prostate and in the metastases (cancerous colonies in other parts of the body). Until recently, however, no case had been reported in which the cancer was known to be destroyed...
...arranged to give his body to Massachusetts General for autopsy. What the pathologists found was the first known case in which both the original prostatic cancer and the outlying colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way of knowing whether Benjamin Twaddle's cancer would have recurred if he had lived longer. The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest...
Last week the Washington Daily News got around to a critique of one of the country's better-known piano players. Wrote News Guest Columnist (and Shoreham Hotel Bandleader) Barnee Breeskin, fresh from half an hour's "elbow-range" observation of Harry Truman...