Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aging (69) General Lung...
Died. James Francis (Jimmy) Dorsey, 53, saxophonist-bandleader, brother of Trombonist Tommy (who accidentally choked to death in his sleep last November); of lung cancer; in Manhattan. The Dorsey brothers played in the '20s, developed a soothing, sentimental style of swing that softened the Dixie beat, met swift success (between them they sold more than 110 million records); formed (1934) their own band but broke up in a tiff over tempo. Jimmy rejoined Tommy in 1953, was hard-hit by his brother's death...
...deaths among the men studied; actually, they recorded 7,316. Of the 2,665 "excess deaths," no fewer than 1,338 (52%) were attributed to coronary artery disease, 1,670 (64%) to all diseases of the heart and arteries combined. This compared with 360 deaths caused by lung cancer and 359 by all other cancers...
...more, his prospects improved; among men who had quit light smoking (less than a pack a day) ten or more years previously, the death rate from most causes was scarcely greater than among lifetime nonsmokers; ten years after heavier smoking, it was 50% greater-and markedly higher from lung cancer...
City v. Country. Cigarette smoking increases with a movement from rural areas to bigger towns and large cities; so does the incidence of lung cancer. When Hammond and Horn adjusted their figures to allow for the smoking difference (50% of rural men smoke cigarettes, 62½% of big-city men), they found that the lung-cancer death rate was still one-third higher in the cities. This might be a reflection of better diagnosis in major medical centers, or a result of big-city air pollution...