Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laboratory shelves are full of drugs that have some cancer-killing properties but can be used only briefly because of their dangerous potency. Last week Philadelphia's Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin, one of the team who operated on President Eisenhower for ileitis, announced that 20 U.S. cancer surgeons will launch a two-year test: they will apply various chemicals, selected for trial by the National Cancer Institute, to the sites of cancer operations. Surgeons have long feared that when they cut around a tumor mass, they might release and spread cancerous cells; the chemicals will be studied...
Playing in Philadelphia, the Crimson took nine quick, 3-0 decisions from an inexperienced, under-practiced Penn squad...
...Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9105 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducting; Robert Casadesus, soloist...
...literary excellence based on incisive, forthright thinking and sturdy independence. Carl, a big, vigorous man who was devoted to football until he stumbled on the works of Christopher Marlowe, concentrated on literary criticism and history. His thoughtful, conscientious works include The Great Rehearsal, a vivid narrative of the Philadelphia convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution, and, at the top of his achievement, the biography of Benjamin Franklin that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Like his nephew, Carl Van Doren had an encyclopedic mind. Wrote Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "He could have sat down with Erasmus; but they would have...
This afternoon the team will play Penn, in Philadelphia, and it should win this one, although after Saturday's debacle anything is possible. From Penn, the squad travels to Princeton tomorrow, and will return to face Dartmouth Friday...