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Stirred by what he called "post-Watergate pangs of conscience," a knowledgeable source-possibly a member of the hospital staff-told New York Times Reporter M. A. Farber of his suspicions. Intrigued, Farber began questioning doctors, survivors and local officials. He soon found numerous loopholes in the testimony of the man originally suspected in the case, one of the hospital's surgeons. Because the doctor had never been charged with homicide and still practices medicine elsewhere in New Jersey, Farber, in his stories, identified him only as "Doctor...
...artist's conception of the Dana Building that Dr. Emil Frei III has on his office wall closely resembles the actual building, which you can see out the window near the Children's Hospital, between Francis and Binney Streets in Boston. Frei is director of the Sidney Farber Center for the study of cancer, which will take up the new and angular black building that is a grim but gleaming testament to the gravity of the disease it was built...
...Dana building is funded largely by the National Cancer Institute, which just last week extended another $5 million to the Farber center for completion of the facilities. It is a Harvard teaching hospital and will have 100 beds for patients. The center is operating now on an outpatient basis, accepting about 25,000 visits a year from cancer patients...
...study of tumors, and it is neither clinical nor pure research by his definition. Rather, Frei explains, it is a field only now "coming to fruition," involving scientist from almost all disciplines, and concerned especially with the effects of radiation therapy and chemotherapy on malignancies. In the Farber Center, Frei boasts, "No man can be an island; optimal evaluation and treatment for cancer involves the multiple occupation of a number of clinicians...
...entirely implausible. In the case of Brezhnev, there had been rumors out of Russia for weeks that the Communist Party boss was sick (see EUROPE). As it happened, the hoaxer, who is still unidentified, worked in the ideal setting to exploit the Brezhnev situation: Boston's renowned Sidney Farber Cancer Center. The hoaxer made up a fake admission schedule card for the Russian leader in the style used by clinic personnel: "L. Brezhnev. No wait. See Dr. Frei." Someone in the clinic saw the card and, apparently just to be helpful, called a Boston policeman and asked...