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Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...
Died. Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg, 76, first surgeon of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's pioneer Neurological Institute; after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. Knowing that certain brain tumors affect the olfactory sense, Elsberg in 1935 developed the current standard technique of testing a patient's sense of smell as a means of determining the presence of a brain tumor undetectable by X rays...
Zymohexase. A new way of detecting cancer in laboratory animals was reported by Drs. John A. Sibley and Albert L. Lehninger of the University of Chicago. They found that whenever an active tumor is present, the blood contains an abnormally large amount of an enzyme called zymohexase; when the tumor is removed, the amount of zymohexase returns to normal. Some day, they thought, the test might be valuable for detecting human cancer...
Porphyrins. A test that may also make treatment easier was described by Dr. Frank H. J. Figge, of the University of Maryland. He set out to find a way of carrying radioactive isotopes directly to a tumor without damaging the rest of the body on the way. Experimenting with porphyrins, which are fluorescent substances found in the body in minute amounts, he found that they went directly to cancer tissue. Since they stay on its outer limit and since they glow under ultraviolet light, they neatly outline the tumor. The porphyrins could, Dr. Figge found, carry zinc on their journey...
Jimmy Durante, 54, went into a Hollywood hospital, where his condition was presently reported "good," after an operation for the removal of a tumor. He was off the air till...