Word: leukemias
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...reform movement to become the only man to serve three terms as Governor of Washington State (1941-45, 1949-57), bringing parsimony and Presbyterian morality to the office, but lost a 1956 Senate race, retired from politics to a job as president and later chairman of McCall Corp.; of leukemia and a heart ailment; in Seattle...
...tracks her down-or rather up-to a hospital in Washington Heights, discovers she belongs to a cheerful, go-getting family of fellow Southerners, signs on as companion to her 16-year-old brother Jamie, who is ill with leukemia, and swings off with the family on a southbound safari that is taking the patient home...
...hormones, familiar for their wide use, particularly in rheumatic disorders, have long since been convicted of causing or exacerbating peptic ulcers, of giving users a fattened "moon" face, and growing mustaches on women. Colonel Moser emphasized two severe unpleasant side effects that may go undetected. Given to victims of leukemia or Hodgkin's disease, he said, these hormones predispose the patients to fungus infections, and they leach the calcium out of the bones of the bedridden elderly...
...days later a big Paris weekly, France Dimanche (circ. 1,300,000), devoted its entire front page to pictures of Olivier and hinted that the boy was dying of leukemia. He was not. His mother obtained a court order confiscating the entire press run of the France Dimanche issue; the court tongue-lashed the photographer for his "veritable aggression," and the newspaper for its "intolerable invasion of the private life of the Philipe family." Though the $8,000 in damages will probably not make an appreciable dent in France Dimanche's pocketbook, it certainly serves notice on the French...
...Stiles Gannett, 74, naturalist, author (Young China) and for 25 years book reviewer of the New York Herald Tribune, who reported on 7,500 books, wrote 6,000 columns on everything from beards to katydids, once mused that "the ideal book reviewer is a superficial sort of fellow"; of leukemia; in Sharon, Conn...