Two Who Survived

Caught in time, cancer need not be fatal. Two who survived were in the news last week:

LIEUT. COMMANDER EDWIN M. ROSENBERG was told six years ago that he probably had only a short while to live. Though one cancer, in the groin, had been removed, others kept cropping up. Rosenberg was treated with X rays, but the Navy retired him on medical grounds. Then Rosenberg astonished the Navy by getting well. It took an act of Congress to get his retirement set aside, and Rosenberg back on active duty, but back he went (TIME, Sept. 4, 1950). Last week Lieut. Commander Rosenberg, 32, saw his Annapolis dream come true: he was ordered to his first sea command, the destroyer escort J. Douglas Blackwood.

GAMBLER FRANK COSTELLO has nothing worse than chronic laryngitis now, his doctor testified last week, but in 1933 it was cancer of the vocal cords. Manhattan Specialist Douglas Quick said that 28 X-ray treatments in a three-month period licked the cancer, but left Costello with considerable scar tissue. The scar tissue was just one of the reasons for Costello's laryngitis, the doctor believed. The other: too many cigarettes.

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