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...Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body. After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol. Periodic checkups showed continued improvement, but a few weeks ago Patient Twaddle fell downstairs, broke his neck and died...
...give his body to Massachusetts General for autopsy. What the pathologists found was the first known case in which both the original prostatic cancer and the outlying colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way of knowing whether Benjamin Twaddle's cancer would have recurred if he had lived longer. The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest...
...music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain's fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...
...early in his big-league career, with a droopy, lackadaisical figure who plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and who comes up to the plate, sometimes limping, as if he had been called on to move a locomotive with a crowbar. The name of this apparition is Lucius Benjamin ("Luke") Appling. Droopy Luke spits a casual stream of tobacco juice, chats in a friendly Southern drawl with the umpire and opposing catcher, and usually complains that he is feeling just terrible. His symptoms may range from an upset stomach to "double vision." Once after a ferryboat ride, he dolefully...
Born. To Esther Williams, 27, hazel-eyed cinemermaid (Bathing Beatify, Neptune's Daughter), and second husband Ben Gage, 32, lanky (6 ft. 5 in.) radio actor-announcer: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Benjamin Stanton. Weight...