Word: leukemias
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Died. Louis B. (for Burt) Mayer, 72, one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of leukemia; in Los Angeles (see CINEMA...
...slumped in red-faced solemnity on the platform as delegates hurled all his old arguments back at him. A Lanarkshire mother pleaded that Nye save her two sons from the leukemia that fallout would bring. Frank Cousins himself rose to confess unashamedly that he saw this issue in terms of his six-year-old daughter and favored abolishing the bomb. When Bevan finally took the floor to answer, the hall stirred. "I have probably made more speeches to more people condemning the bomb than anyone else at this conference," he began. "I am as strongly against it as ever...
...There is strong evidence that a link may exist between leukemia and Mongolism. two Minneapolis researchers report. Drs. William Krivit and Robert A. Good of the University of Minnesota found that in four years (1952-55) the two conditions occurred together at least 34 times in children four years old and younger, far oftener than the number (12.3) expected from chance alone. Likelihood that the cases occurred by chance in a four-year span, say the statisticians. is less than one in a thousand. If existence of a link between the two presumably incurable conditions is proved, important clues...
...lord mayor of West Berlin, doughty foe of Communism, Social Democratic delegate to the Bonn parliament and President-elect of the Bundesrat, the Parliament's Upper House, sometime (before Hitler and since 1948) professor of political science, onetime (1922-33) secretary of the German Trade Union Association; of leukemia; in Berlin...
Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan...