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After a few years of civilian practice, Radiologist Brown realized that some of the warty growths which plagued him were cancerous. He went back to Massachusetts, eked out an existence on an Army disability pension. Over the years he submitted to 50 or more operations. Every few weeks, when he saw a fellow Harvard alumnus, Surgeon Ernest M. Daland, he would point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown...
High Hopes. If Radiologist Harvey's estimate is right, every day for the next two to three weeks more & more cancer cells in and around the patient's larynx will have their nuclei killed by the betatron's almost irresistible rays. Patients with deep-seated malignancies in other parts of the body also started treatment this week. Soon Dr. Harvey should be able to tell whether medicine's new weapon, which now costs $85,000, shows promise. If the answer is favorable, high-powered, penetrating X rays may be used in about 10% of cancer cases...
Died. Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, 63, Canadian radiologist famed for his work in cancer diagnosis; of leukemia; in Toronto...
Comes the Revolution. It was at a Pasadena party in 1939 that Robert Oppenheimer, then 35, met Katherine Puening Harrison. A small, German-born brunette, Mrs. Harrison was the wife of a radiologist, and herself a graduate student in plant physiology at U.C.L.A. A year later, after the Harrisons were divorced, Kitty and Robert were married. Of the subsequent revolution in his habits, Oppenheimer says: "A certain stuffiness overcame...
Wolf Cukersvein, a 35-year-old, Warsaw-born doctor who left Poland because, as a Jew, he could not gain admission to a university; had fled anti-Semitism in Italy; settled in Toulouse as a radiologist: "Even there I ... could not get work because of racial prejudice...