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Commented Dr. Erich Uhlmann, expert in radium therapy and director of the tumor clinic at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital: "Yes, and if you bow east three times, it helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pineapple v. Pineapple | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Leach and Guy F. Robbins of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital questioned some 50 cancer patients. They found that 28%, when they first went to a doctor, had not had their ailment diagnosed correctly. The investigators were shocked to learn, furthermore, that half of the women patients with breast tumors were advised by their doctors to ignore the tumor "if it doesn't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fatal Delay | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Died. John Ray Sinnock, 58, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, designer of the Roosevelt dime and the Purple Heart Medal; of a brain tumor; in Staten Island. Wags have peddled the rumor that the artist's initials, a microscopic "JS" on the new 10? piece, stood for Joseph Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Cornell University has for years immortalized undergraduate viscera on photographic plates, thereby unmasking many incipient diseases. Mass x-ray programs, recently inaugurated in Watertown and Somerville, have uncovered a numerically small but potentially serious number of cases of tuberculosis and lung tumor among men in their early twenties. Even veterans, recipients of pre-separation examinations, cannot feel completely sanguine about their physical condition, for their x-ray plates are inspected by busy and not always thorough medics, who view the whole procedure as a vexatious but necessary duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The All Seeing Eye | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

Burning-eyed Conductor Otto Klemperer, 61, who left Germany when Hitler was taking over, reappeared in Los Angeles. Seven years ago he had been operated on for a brain tumor. He had not had a steady job since 1941. Last spring he made a brilliant musical comeback in Rome, Milan, Paris. Last week he was found lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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