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DIED. Steve McQueen, 50, ruggedly handsome actor whose portrayals of cool, self-assured loners made him a leading Hollywood star of the '60s and '70s; of a heart attack after undergoing surgery for removal of a cancerous tumor; in Juarez, Mexico. A graduate of a reform school and a Marine brig, McQueen was typecast for his tough roles, whether leading a prison escape (Papillon), masterminding a daring caper (The Thomas Crown Affair) or driving through a breakneck chase (Bullitt). His screen persona exemplified grace under pressure; he raised his fists but never his voice. He revealed last month...
...three, working independently, have been studying a group of genes that are intimately linked to the body's immune response. Snell, 76, of the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., laid the groundwork with studies using mice. Attempting to transplant first tumor cells and then normal tissue, he discovered that the success of the operations depended on protein molecules on the surface of cells. These proteins, called antigens, have characteristic shapes and structures, but combinations differ from individual to individual. Snell found that the more antigens the subjects had in common, the more likely was the graft to take...
This is the sort of setup that tempts jealous gods and novelists. What will it be this time: brain tumor? Hodgkin's disease? coronary bypass? Segal has something more imaginative in mind. In 1968 Husband Bob attended a conference in the south of France. The country was gripped by unrest, and he managed to get his head in the way of a policeman's cosh. First aid was administered by a beautiful female physician who then prescribed house calls. What patient could resist such doctor's orders...
...outside infection. The first of these mice was an unexpected mutation, which was then bred to other mice in the Charles River labs. Now the company turns out more than 250,000 of these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like other laboratory animals. Unfortunately, they will not reject any other diseases either, and so they must be raised in a totally germ-free environment; researchers have to scrub down and wear face masks before entering the breeding lab. Because the care is expensive, the bare rodent sells...
...starred in such prewar entertainments as Babes in Toyland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and, most notably, the 1933 Alice in Wonderland, in which she played Alice to Cary Grant's Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper's White Knight and W.C. Fields' Humpty Dumpty; of a brain tumor; in San Diego...