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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Deaths from laryngeal cancer, Deaths from oral cancer, Bruce Paltrow, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Burl Ives, Juan Jose Castelli, Theodore G. Bilbo, Mary Wells, Bob Prince, Uveal melanoma, Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Evan Hunter, Takanohana Kenshi, Jack Wild, Gordon MacRae, Toni Sailer, Charley Parkhurst, Oropharyngeal cancer, E. V. V. Satyanarayana, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Alan Landers, Francisco Vicente Aguilera, Arthur Hunnicutt, Milton McPike, Ajit Kumar Panja, John Chard, Jacek Kaczmarski, Jinzai Kiyoshi, William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington, William Brassington, Ian Johnston, George F. Gibbs, Suchart Chaovisith, W. Laird Stabler, Jr., Vineeta Rastogi, Xiangzhong Yang, Chris Hawk, Quincy Howe, Tracheal tumor, Metastatic tumor of jaws, Respiratory tract neoplasm. Excerpt: Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 - April 14, 1995) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice ... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity. And it moved people." Ives was born in 1909 near Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois, the son of Levi "Frank" Ives (1880-1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" White (1882-1954). He had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Norma. His father was at first a farmer and then a contractor for the county and others. One day Ives was singing in the garden with his mother, and his uncle overheard them. He invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers' reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad "Barbara Allen...