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Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, started on the project with Librettist Lewis Allan three years ago, finished the vocal score and 350 pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from...
...Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from tests "many thousands of persons in the world will suffer agonizing death from bone cancer and leukemia." In Lausanne, Switzerland, by contrast, a nine-nation scientific-medical conference on bomb-test hazards announced the finding that fallout radioactivity "has no practical importance compared with natural radiation [and does not] constitute a danger to the health of mankind...
Died. Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, 54, vice president (1950) of RCA and (since 1953) of NBC, longtime friend and agent to leading show-business stars (TIME, Dec. 17, 1956); of leukemia; in Philadelphia...
...hero of this novel ferries forth on the river Styx as matter-of-factly as if he were boating at a church social. Floyd Walker is a handsome, 32-year-old bank teller-and sparetime choirmaster-who has leukemia. With apologetic hems and haws, the town doctor of Ophelia, Mo. announces the sentence: three months, more or less, to live. In sleepy little Ophelia (pronounced "afailure") the drama of life has no acts, only intermissions, and Floyd is scarcely prepared for center stage in the town's morbidly engaged affections. He makes only one promise to himself: "From...
...never did. Instead, he shrewdly multiplied his fortune by investments (oil, real estate), spent hours avidly watching television. Last July, when he suddenly lost his oldtime pep, he dropped in at Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco for a checkup. The doctors first said it was anemia, then spotted leukemia. Mayer entered the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in September, had a series of blood transfusions. There last week, at 72, Louis B. Mayer died. Close by his bedside was his television screen, the only other force that had changed Hollywood as much as he himself had. Headlined the Hollywood Reporter...