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...Paul Niehans, a stony-faced, ramrod-straight Swiss physician told it, his theory and practice of "cellular therapy" sounded plausible enough. Thirty years ago he had begun transplanting parts of animals (glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...
Died. Lansing Hatfield, 44, onetime (1941-45) Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone (the king in Aïda), Broadway singer (Sadie Thompson); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Asheville...
Died. Paul W. Shafer, 61, since 1937 a Republican Congressman from Michigan's traditionally conservative Third District; of a liver ailment; in Washington. A onetime newspaperman, Shafer learned his law from correspondence school, became known in the House for bluntly spoken opinion. He demanded a breakoff in diplomatic relations with Russia in 1949, demanded full U.S. recognition of Franco Spain the same year, befriended Korea's Syngman Rhee and warned, in 1947, of the dangers of a divided Korea. In 1952 he introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Truman because he thought Truman had overstepped...
Died. Albert S. (for Sidney) Camp, 61, longtime (1939-54) Democratic Congressman from Georgia; of a liver ailment; in Bethesda...
Died. Colonel General Heinz Guderian, 65, organizer of Hitler's formidable Panzer divisions before World War II and their leader to victory in Poland and France, to defeat within sight of Moscow; of a liver ailment; in Schwangau, West Germany. No avowed Nazi but loyal to Hitler, Heinz Guderian became Wehrmacht chief of staff in 1944, sought in vain to remove Hitler's ban on retreat in the East, was later ousted and, as the war ended, was captured by U.S. forces. Never tried as a war criminal, Old Soldier Guderian pubished his memoirs, Panzer Leader (1952), lived...