Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Raymond P. Holden, 78, poet, novelist and editor; of leukemia; in North Newport, N.H. Holden's first love and special talent was verse, and he published several collections of sensitive, tightly constructed poems (Granite and Alabaster, 1922; Natural History, 1938; The Reminding Salt, 1965). His varied career included three years as executive editor of The New Yorker (1929-32) and stints as a brokerage-firm research analyst and a financial editor. Under the pseudonym Richard Peckham, he also wrote mysteries...
...seeking new ways to fight cancer, researchers have been experimenting with combination treatments. Leukemia, a cancer of the blood that kills 2,000 children under the age of 15 in the U.S. each year, has been found to respond to a double-barreled approach. One phase uses cytotoxic (cell-destroying) drugs to combat the cancer itself" the other consists of X-ray treatment of the head and spinal column to prevent involvement of the nervous system a frequent and fatal complication of the disease. Dr. Joseph Simone of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis told an American...
...Hiroshima A-Bomb Hospital, seventy to eighty people still die each year from leukemia--a disease directly linked to radiation effects. Resentment against the hospital which is run by the Japanese government was expressed by Masaho Suzuki, a twenty-two year-old resident of Hiroshima whose father was burned in the bombing...
Despite these results, the researchers remained skeptical of their own evidence. "We thought it was just a feline leukemia virus," explained McAllister. But further experiments showed that the virus was chemically different from all previously identified mammalian viruses. Gardner still feels a "small nagging doubt-the remote possibility that it's a strange new type of cat virus." To rule out this possibility, the researchers plan an additional series of laboratory experiments, including attempts to produce viral antiserum from guinea pigs and rabbits. The antiserum could then be used in human cancer tissue to test for the presence...
...shot of Jenny's corpse. What is surprising is that Jennifer on My Mind is allegedly a comedy. The subject, which has only slightly less comic potential than Bangla Desh, was written up with unbounded vulgarity by Erich Segal, who has wrung laughs from young love and leukemia in his time. As in Love Story, however, they are all the wrong kind...