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Died. Princess Marina, 61, Duchess of Kent, Greek-born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...
While Aspen promotes his favorite cause, McLuhan himself has been all but silent for half a year. After undergoing a successful operation for a benign brain tumor last winter, he has been teaching at Fordham University but making no outside speeches or public pronouncements. Instead, he has been working on two books to be published next fall: Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, which he co-authored with Harley Parker, and War & Peace in the Global Village...
...hospital and laboratories overlooking the East River have attracted some of the world's most eminent scientists. Rockefeller researchers, including eight Nobel prize winners (four of them still on the staff) , have produced such breakthroughs as the identification of the Rh blood factor and the discovery that a tumor can be induced by a virus...
...came from a donor who had died of cancer that had spread from the lungs to the brain. At the time of the transplant, there was no evidence to suggest the cancer had traveled to other parts of the victim's body. Nonetheless, Palazola developed a malignant tumor near the transplanted kidney within 18 months. When radiation treatments failed to reduce the tumor, Palazola was taken off immunosuppressives. When this caused rapid rejection of the transplant, the kidney and most of the tumor were excised...
...health when she told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking lot from the pressure of a tumor upon her brain stem and lapsed into a fatal coma. But her father remembered, and her doctor called Maimonides, where she died...