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...normal cell malignant? Most researchers think the answer will be found in cell metabolism. A malignant cell, some now think, may be just a normal cell with a peculiar digestion. Exploring one phase of this theory, a team of Harvard and M.I.T. scientists used radioactive zinc to study malignant leukemia, an incurable, cancerlike disease of the white blood cells. They found that malignant white cells have much less zinc than normal cells...
Their conclusion: lack of zinc (necessary for normal cell growth) probably accounts for some of the abnormal behavior of cells in leukemia. Their discovery may eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...
Died. Georges Gonneau, 50, famed chef; of leukemia; in Manhattan. His chef-d'oeuvre: breast of pheasant, simmered with juniper berries, truffle essence and old Calvados brandy; fresh chestnuts nested in green artichoke hearts; individual timbale of baked chip potatoes...
Died. László Moholy-Nagy (pronounced Mohoy-Nadj), 51, Hungarian-born founder-director of Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases...
Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan...