Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff, 54, Belgian-born Russian who chose England as his adopted country, won the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order for his legendary exploits in World War II; of a brain tumor; in London. When the war began, Peniakoff was a sugar manufacturer in Egypt. He joined the British army, persuaded the brass to let him organize a unit of Commandos, who dubbed him "Popski" because of his tongue-tangling name. "Popski's Private Army" (its officially approved title) spent most of the war behind Axis lines in Africa and Italy, reconnoitered, freed prisoners...
...related to cancer. Doctors feel that the betatron has shown remarkable promise in brain cancer; of six cases treated, only one has died. More apparent is the effect of the betatron's massive doses of high-voltage X rays on a less common malignancy called Pancoast's tumor. This type of cancer eats away the ribs and causes agonizing pain. Both the patients treated got quick relief from pain and they are now back at work. Their affected ribs have grown back...
...announced that a Mrs. Vernon Hawley wanted to see him. Mrs. Hawley was a big woman (220 Ibs.); awkwardly she got ready and lay on the examining table. A large mass protruded from her abdomen and hung down to her thighs. At first Dr. Bramer thought it was a tumor. Then he thought of hernia. Closer examination disclosed the outline of a baby. He asked why she had come to see him, and Izene Hawley calmly replied. "This thing is heavy and I'm past...
...describes as "a sort of self-mockery. I chose a town built on a hill so that in the sketch there emerged a powerful plastic suggestion by the perspective view of the blocks of houses. [Then I punched] the back of the paper. Now you can see the protruding tumor, and you see that these houses and sun were nonsense. But I, poor fool, what did I do? This wild effort to depict in appearance the reality seems also to have been illusion, for . . . the paper is as flat and smooth as before, and I succeeded only in the suggestion...
Died. General Kuniaki Koiso, 70, one of the fanatic militarists who led the Japanese Empire into war and destruction; of a chest tumor; in Tokyo, where he was serving time on a life sentence for war crimes. Wizened, jovial Warmonger Koiso commanded Japan's famed Kwantung army in Manchuria, earned the title "The Tiger" because of his cat's eyes and ruthless behavior as governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea...