He helped move the field away from radical mastectomies, a disfiguring procedure he deemed unnecessary. He helped introduce the idea that the disease can move through the body via the lymph system.
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Clayton Grover, who worked at Bath Iron Works for 67 years, dies at 87
The Newcastle man began at the shipyard as a 19-year-old in 1952, leaving to serve in the Army in the Korean War for 2 years before returning to work at BIW until his death this month.
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Craig Wilson, greenskeeper at Nonesuch River Golf Course, dies at 72
The Scarborough man, a former dispatcher for Maine Central Railroad and captain for the Blackpoint Hose Company, is remembered fondly by his family.
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Bella Tovey, who bore witness to Holocaust, dies at 92
She survived Nazi labor and concentration camps as a Jewish teenager in Poland, living to tell her story to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Jessye Norman, acclaimed operatic soprano, dies at 74
She was among the most celebrated singers of her era, with a repertoire spanning the canon from Wagner to Verdi and from Purcell to Poulenc.
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Al Alvarez, British critic and author who championed poetry and poker, dies at 90
He cultivated a reputation as a swashbuckling adrenaline seeker as well as an accomplished poet, novelist and literary critic.
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George Lardner Jr., who received Pulitzer for investigation of his daughter’s murder, dies at 85
Lardner said he would ‘give anything not to have written’ the story that won the 1993 prize for feature writing.
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Christopher Rouse, expressionistic composer who won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 70
Rouse was best known for his symphonies and concertos, which featured a sound that cellist Yo-Yo Ma once described as ‘spiritual without being sentimental, deeply felt without sentimentality.’
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Chester Williams, South African rugby star who symbolized end of apartheid, dies at 49
The athlete was the only nonwhite member of the 1995 World Cup-winning team, a story explored in the film ‘Invictus.’
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Betsy Parsons, 65, English teacher in Portland who advocated for LGBTQ youths
She helped found GLSEN Southern Maine and was instrumental in creating about 90 gay-straight alliance groups in high schools across Maine.