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Philip Neri was literally bighearted. People often said that they could hear his heart hammering from far off, and his doctors noticed a swelling in his chest that they took to be a tumor. But after his death, an autopsy showed that his heart was so enlarged that it had sprung two of his ribs out of position. Few who knew him doubted his sainthood. Two months after he died, the canonization process began with 194 witnesses, and less than 27 years later, Pope Gregory XV proclaimed him St. Philip Neri. "He owed his pre-eminence," writes Author Jouhandeau...
...hard to live with a recurring vision of nuclear ruin, and yet, repressing the evidence of danger, like taking aspirin for a tumor, provides relief perhaps, but no cure. Once the danger is faced, we either place our faith in the system of nuclear deterrence or else find steps away from it. The first appears increasingly perilous, especially when present trends are projected even a decade (ten years ago we had no long-range missiles, no fusion bomb...
...Bronx-born comic sometimes broke his eloquent silence, as in his famed renditions of River, Stay 'Way from My Door and One Meat Ball, hit his Broadway peak in 1938 in The Boys from Syracuse, in 1946 made a nightclub comeback following a leg amputation for a malignant tumor...
...McDowell explained the risks. Jane Crawford and her farmer husband Thomas were willing. So she set out on horseback, the tumor resting on the saddle pommel, from Greensburg to Danville, Ky. The 60-mile journey lasted "a few days"-Dr. McDowell does not record just how many. Then, according to his own report in the Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review...
...Having placed her on a table of the ordinary height, on her back, and removed all her dressing which might in any way impede the operation, I made an incision . . . nine inches in length . . . extending into the cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was so large that we could not take it away entire . . . We cut open the tumor [and] took out fifteen pounds of a dirty, gelatinous substance. After which we cut through the Fallopian tube, and extracted the sack, which weighed seven pounds and a half . . . The operation was completed in about...