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...findings: he had a tumor on his pituitary gland; evidently it had boosted the gland's output of growth hormone to a fantastic level, while suppressing its output of three other vital master hormones which govern the adrenal glands, the thyroid and the sex glands...
...almost a year to slow his growth and help build his strength. Last March Dr. Shimizu performed a drastic operation. He opened Yoshimitsu's skull across the forehead and probed past vital brain substance to get at the deep-hidden, almost inaccessible pituitary. Then he removed the tumor...
...Stokes, 59, Pulitzer prizewinning old-school newsman (motto: "A reporter is half brain, half legs"), University of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa who got his early lessons in journalism on Southern newspapers and the U.P., in political reporting under the late Raymond Clapper in the '205; of a brain tumor; in Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers when illness overtook...
John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung heroically to life and sanity. Though Frances (who now lives in Jerusalem) had divorced Gunther in 1944, they fought an agonizing side-by-side battle for Johnny's life. In desperation they consulted more than 30 doctors, tried such extreme treatments as intravenous mustard-gas injections, which had never...
...Paid no attention to an assistant's warning that a sponge seemed to be missing while he was removing a tumor from a 40-year-old woman. The patient was readmitted with an internal abscess, and died; autopsy indicated that death was caused by the sponge...