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...many artificial parts was lawyer Frank Tull. His teeth had been fashioned for him and fitted to his jaws by a doctor of dental surgery ...He had a silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found...
Died. Richardson Dilworth, 75, two-time Democratic mayor of Philadelphia from 1955-62; of a malignant brain tumor; in Philadelphia. A brilliant lawyer who served in the Marine Corps in World Wars I and II, Dilworth mounted vitriolic attacks against Republicans who had controlled and corrupted city hall since 1884; sued four times for libel, he won every case, and helped Co-Reformer Joseph Clark win the mayoralty in 1951 before being elected himself in 1954. Named by FORTUNE one of the nine best mayors in America, Dilworth was unsuccessful in two attempts to become Governor. But as president...
Bennet in the fall of 1972 was diagnosed as having cancer of the throat. For four months he underwent cobalt radiation treatments at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In February 1973 Bennet's doctors discovered that his tumor had been arrested...
...California at Los Angeles has found signs of viral activity in human sarcomas, or cancers of connective tissue. Drs. Werner and Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus in cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat. Joseph Melnick of Baylor College of Medicine has determined that antibodies formed by the body to combat the herpes Type 2 virus* which often causes sores...
...which is something new for Falk. The short, stocky actor was born 46 years ago in Ossining, N.Y., where his parents still run Falk's Department Store. Despite the loss of his right eye as the result of a tumor when he was three, he grew up a hell-raising street kid and amateur athlete, who also managed to become president of his high school senior class...