Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sam Byrd, 47, actor, producer and novelist, who set a Broadway record with 1,151 consecutive performances (1933-36) as Dude Lester in Tobacco Road, during which time he bounced 18 squash balls to shreds against Jeeter Lester's poor-white shack; of leukemia; in Durham...
Died. Graham Edgar, 67, chemist and longtime (1932-52) vice president of Ethyl Corp., developer of the octane scale for measurement of the antiknock quality of motor fuels, pioneer in research that led to the production of 100-octane (high efficiency) gasoline; of leukemia; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Anderson and Harold W. Hermann of Minneapolis made a plea, in the A.M.A. Journal, for doctors to report extremely rare cases of leukemia in identical twins to medical groups involved in leukemia research. Purpose of the request: to learn more about hereditary factors in the disease by studying its effect on two humans coming from the same ovum...
Drama is the forte of the March of Dimes. While the organization can hardly expect to dramatize the slow and careful final work on Salk vaccine, it can easily bring the tragedy of leukemia, rheumatic fever, or some other disease to the hearts of the people. Responding in this appeal in their generous and sympathetic manner, Americans can help the March of Dimes conquer another health menace...
Survivors farther from the explosion did not get leukemia so frequently, but even among those nearly two miles away the leukemia rate has been far above normal. Dr. Moloney expects other forms of cancer to appear later, and he suspects that the radioactive fallout of hydrogen bombs will have even greater cancer-producing effect. His guess is that repeated small exposures because of the fallout will cause more malignancies than the atom bomb's single big dose...