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...complained of radiation sickness, the doctor had borrowed an old Geiger counter from Texas Christian University and reported that Earle's body was emitting "gamma rays." But the doctor found that Earle's death was due not to radiation but to acute hepatitis (inflammation of the liver...
...reportedly after it was in the coffin) with their own instruments, they could detect no radiation. Said the A.E.C. report: Earle had never been exposed to radioactive material while working at Oak Ridge. (Other sources reported that he had left there an alcoholic-which might account for his fatal liver disorder.) Nonetheless, A.E.C. was determined to get to the bottom of the story for the sake of its workers' morale and its touchy recruitment problem. But A.E.C.'s chief medical adviser, dispatched to Fort Worth, ran into a major snag: on advice of counsel Earle's family...
Died. Joseph ("Big Joe") Saltis, 62, onetime Chicago beer baron in competition with Al Capone, a way of life that earned him barrels of freely-spent money and two bullets in the neck; of a liver ailment; in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital...
...that fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz, can be deposited at will in the liver, spleen, bone marrow...
Died. Walter Donaldson, 54, Brooklyn-born composer whose Mammy and My Blue Heaven made him one of the brightest of Tin Pan Alley's neon lights; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...