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This year Whiskers grew sick and feeble. Last week a veterinarian discovered that he had a brain tumor and put him out of his misery with a lethal injection of a barbiturate. In their sorrow, the men of Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 experienced something almost like relief. Whiskers had never learned to get back down ladders. He had answered 3,000 alarms, had climbed on an average of twice at each fire, had been cornered in the smoke, rescued against his will, and had been lugged back down to the street-all 60 wriggling pounds of him-on each...
...sooner had the speech been broadcast than plans were changed again. Evita Perón, reportedly suffering from leukemia, was taken to the hospital for treatment and possibly to undergo surgery for a condition variously rumored in Buenos Aires to be an ulceration or a tumor. Perón announced that he would cancel all public appearances to be at his wife's bedside. Peronista Party branches in the capital also suspended public meetings...
...over the exact nature of the King's illness as they had been when the doctors first spoke of "structural changes" in his lung. The nature of the operation (resection is the removal of the whole or part of a lung) indicated the presence of either a growth (tumor or cancer) or an abscess (caused by bronchiectasis...
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...
...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...