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Died. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley, 72, president (1940-51) and board chairman (1951-52) of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., member (1948-54) of the general advisory committee of the Atomic Energy Commission; of pneumonia; in Maplewood...
...pathologists were looking for changes in the cells, along a spectrum from normal through slightly abnormal to precancerous and finally cancerous. There were many abnormalities that the pathologists rated as probably too minor to be significant; also, many patients had died of pneumonia or other lung diseases. Even including these cases, the pathologists found atypical cells in only 3.8% of slides from nonsmokers and 10.9% of those from occasional cigarette smokers...
...sultry Cinemactress Elizabeth (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Taylor, 27, with virus pneumonia; torchy Songbird Judy (Over the Rainbow) Garland, 37,; with hepatitis; both comfortably hospitalized in Manhattan...
...both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel for evacuation. But the sickly infant, in constant danger of death from pneumonia or choking in his own saliva, was still an insupportable burden to his father (a low-paid oilfield worker) and his mother who had four other youngsters to care...
Died. James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...