Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tootsie" to his parents, "Roosevelt's butcher" to the Nazis, "Taskmaster" to his hard-driven aides in Viet Nam and "an American hero" to President Ford. From his emergence as a tank commander in World War II to his death last week of lung-cancer complications at 59, Creighton Abrams Jr. won respect even from enemies abroad and antiwar activists at home...
...others treated since 1972, only two have developed lung metastases...
Died. Delbert Eugene Webb, 75, Phoenix-based real-estate baron; of lung cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Webb was a promising semipro baseball pitcher before illness made him give up the game at 27. In 1929 he started his own construction company with one cement mixer and a few dozen wheelbarrows and tools, ultimately parlayed it into the Del E. Webb Corp., a $100 million empire of hotels, offices, planned retirement communities and other developments. With the late Dan Topping, Webb owned the New York Yankees during their postwar years of glory...
Died. George Frazier, 63, acerbic, eccentric newspaper columnist; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. A self-styled Brahmin, Frazier was the Harvard-honed son of a fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among...
That is the gist of a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine by three researchers-Drs. Arthur Simon of Duke University and Manning Feinleib of the National Heart and Lung Institute and Sociologist Angelo Alonzo of DePauw University. They base their conclusion on a year-long study of admissions to a single hospital in a suburb of Washington, D.C. During that period, 382 patients were brought to the hospital after complaining of symptoms of acute coronary disease; 138 of them were dead on arrival. By interviewing the surviving patients as well as the families of those who died...