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Last month, 74 and alone, Junkman Fraiman died in Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital of coronary thrombosis. Last week Yeshiva officials blinked at the totally unexpected news that he had left the university some $250,000. Try as they might, no one could remember the little man who had paid Yeshiva a visit two decades...
...compound artificially, Winegard had to work with an unstable chemical compound called diazomethane; it is a deadly, odorless yellow gas that can be inhaled without giving a warning sensation of choking. No antidote is known. On Thanksgiving Day he finished his first pilot synthesis at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Cancer Research Institute, did it again a week later...
...last week, at 28, Winegard died in Philadelphia's Jewish Hospital. It was just four years to the day since he had turned down a higher-paid commercial job to work at Lankenau-to satisfy "a longstanding ambition." Diazomethane, it appeared, had damaged his lungs and made him an easy prey for pneumonia...
...first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital and later became Dictator Machado's personal surgeon. Before long he got as deep into politics as Physician Grau himself. By last winter he was seeing as many politicos as patients, and University of Havana colleagues began greeting him with: "And what does our doctor-president say today...
Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...