Word: leukemias
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...deaths in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Sarasota, Fla., Tampa, Washington and, provided a buyer is not found soon, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, it was the Press-Scimitar's swinish attitude toward reporters from outside. The Press-Scimitar would shove a camera in the face of a dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want any local or nonlocal journalists on our floor...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Stevie Nicks, 35, rock-'n'-roll enchantress (Bella Donna, The Wild Heart); and Kim Anderson, 32, record promoter; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles. Anderson was formerly married to Nicks' close friend Robin Anderson, who died of leukemia in 1982 and who had asked the singer to take care of her newborn daughter...
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Albert J. Meyer, who is currently undergoing treatment for leukemia at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has contracted a serious bacterial infection, and a blood drive is underway to help him combat this recent complication...
Meyer is suffering from hairy cell leukemia, which prevents his bone marrow from manufacturing enough white blood cells to combat the infection, according to Dr. Thomas J. Ervin, medical director of the Dana-Farber blood components laboratory...
DIED. Terence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Archbishop of New York; of acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. The genial, owlish New York native succeeded his mentor, the commanding Francis Cardinal Spellman, and quickly adopted a more conciliatory managerial style, in keeping with the decentralizing principles of Vatican II. An anti-Communist who served as military vicar to the U.S. armed services' 2 million Roman Catholics, the Cardinal last year abandoned his usual quiet role among fellow prelates to oppose the majority of American bishops in their call for nuclear disarmament. Cooke used the occasion of his approaching death...