Word: cameronism
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Kicking off the 1956 drive for funds to support their work, the nation's top cancer investigators reported on progress and problems. Chief among them was Dr. Charles S. Cameron, 47, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, whose new 268-page book for laymen (The Truth About Cancer; Prentice-Hall; $4.95) outlines the symptoms and the treatment of cancer. The book's main point: prompt medical checkups at the first sign of such cancer signals as bleeding, unusual growths can easily double the current U.S. cure rate of 25% in 500,000 new cases...
Barnstorming in Boston, Chicago and Manhattan lecture halls, Dr. Cameron also furnished new data last week on the most promising scientific developments in the hunt for a cancer cure. So far, even supervoltage radiation has failed to eliminate more than a small percentage of serious internal cancers; surgery has proved successful only in localized, easily removable cancers, e.g., of the breast and cervix. Cameron's conclusion: "Drug treatment has to be the solution...
Winners of the singles were Charlie Hamm, Jim Cameron, Bill Wood, Ed Weld, Bob Repetto, and Roger Tuckerman. Cameron and Ford, Francis Hayne and Laurie Pratt, Weld and Tom Haskins combined for the doubles victories...
...contest today will mark the first time the team has played outside after practicing in the I.A.B. since before vacation. Charlie Hamm will play in the first position followed by Jim Cameron, Billy Wood, Ned Weld, Bob Repetto, and Rodger Tuckerman. Four other freshmen who may see action in the doubles matches are Lawrence Pratt, Booy Haynes, Tom Haskins and Doonie Iselin...
...production, the acting and singing still convey the tenderness and the bitterness of the story. Heading the cast are Gordon MacRae, whose voice has never been stronger, and Shirley Jones, whose charm is matched only by her singing. In support of the two who play Billy and Julie are Cameron Mitchell as an adequately evil but beguiling schemer, and the Metropolitan's Robert Rounseville as Mr. Snow. And when Julie's aunt Nettie, Claramae Turner, sang "You'll Never Walk Alone," the audience had a good collective cry. With the help of such effective portrayals, the story of sweet Carrie...