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...Look-see around Viet Nam. Suddenly an aide burst into the room to tell Pierre that Washington was calling. "It was the hot line from the White House," said Salinger afterward, telling him that California's Democratic Senator Clair Engle, 52, was dead of a cancerous brain tumor. Immediately Salinger broke off his visit and flew home...
Kill a Patient? The doctors thought that in their small hospital they were likely to have many more suitable recipients than donors. But they were wrong. Three men were admitted to the medical center in Jackson with incurable brain injuries-one from a fall, one from a tumor, and one from a suicidal gunshot wound. Each of the doomed men was kept alive for a while by artificial breathing apparatus, and any one of them might have been a suitable donor if there had been an equally suitable recipient handy. But even if they had had a dying heart patient...
...innocence of his angel (Stefania Sandrelli), Germi first thrusts her into an earthy peasant farce. One midday siesta she is seduced and becomes pregnant. Her father, played with inexhaustible bravura by Saro Urzi, consults a lawyer cousin, explaining that the doctor has brought up a little problem about Agnese. "Tumor?" asks the cousin. "Honor," growls Don Vincenzo. He sends his only son Antonio to murder the seducer, assured that the boy's punishment will be no more than three to seven years in prison, provided he can prove that he killed "in a blind rage...
...Episcopal Bishop of Arizona since 1945, member of a Virginia family that produced nine clergymen (including bishops of Texas and Brazil), who ministered first to West Point cadets, then to Long Island suburbanites before going west, where parishioners ranged from the retired rich to the Havasupai Indians; of brain tumor; in Carmel, Calif...
...best known as the man sent hurrying to Scotland in 1941 to identify and interrogate Rudolf Hess after Hitler's Deputy Führer flew from Berlin (crash-landing his ME-110 fighter) in a mad attempt to negotiate peace with England; of a brain tumor; in Celbridge, Ireland...