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Mar 8, 2019 · On the morning of Monday July 12, 1937, New Yorkers who had just suffered through five days of a heat wave that left thirty-eight people dead, awoke to read on the front page of the New York Times about the death of George Gershwin, a native son of their city.
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Aug 12, 2017 · In Gershwin's case, the high intracranial pressure due to a large tumour might have caused transtentorial herniation and Duret haemorrhage, which made him comatose and paretic, and intracranial pressure was further increased by cerebral aqueduct obstruction, resulting in acute papilloedema and retinal haemorrhage.
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- 2017
Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made the world sing his songs and who never, even in his most pretentious work, disdained the antic ...
Nov 5, 2017 · SO WHAT caused Gershwin’s tragic death? Hadassah neurosurgeon Dr. Ido Paldor examined pink-tinted slides from the autopsy and medical reports that have been published.
Mar 5, 2020 · Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz (for such was his name) was identified early as a genuine musical prodigy. Here's how he died.
Sep 26, 2018 · The cause of his untimely death was most likely glioblastoma, the same type of brain cancer that killed Senators Edward M. Kennedy in 2009 and John McCain this September.
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Apr 12, 2001 · When composer George Gershwin died in July 1937 at age 38, doctors said the cause was brain cancer. But a new examination of Gershwin's autopsy slides has cast doubt on that diagnosis.