Word: leukemias
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...California researchers developed the method to prove their theory that leukemia is not so much the result of a wild growth of new white blood cells as of a failure of the lungs to destroy the old ones (TIME, Feb. 5). They tried it only on pairs of volunteers hopelessly ill, e.g., one of leukemia, the other of tissue cancer...
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...
Died. Lieut. General José Enrique Varela, 59, one of Dictator Franco's top generals during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), and once considered his likeliest successor; of leukemia; in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco. During the Spanish war, Varela led the Fascists to a decisive victory at Toledo, later became War Minister. Pro-monarchist and anti-Axis, he was fired in 1942 after falling out with the Falange. Since 1945, Varela had been Spain's colonial ruler in Morocco...
Died. Eddy (Edwin Frank) Duchin, 41, pianist-orchestra leader of radio, screen and ballroom, famed for his frilly "society" style; of leukemia, on the day the Navy awarded him a citation for meritorious service in World War II; in Manhattan. Son of a Boston druggist, Duchin disappointed his father by not sticking to the family business. His first wife, Socialite Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs, died in 1937, six days after giving birth to a son. In 1947 he married Maria Teresa Paske-Smith Winn, daughter of a British diplomat...
...being born" and "dying." Some body mechanism, still unidentified, must constantly dispose of the normal accumulation of white cells. The California scientists concluded that one such mechanism is located in the lungs. Its breakdown may prove an added and important cause of the excess of young white cells in leukemia...