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...Houghton Mifflin) by Jay Neugeboren, 28, an English instructor at Columbia, finds its anti-hero in black Brooklyn, but race is not his reason for being on the outside looking in. Mack Davis is a onetime All-America basketball star who got caught fixing games for the gamblers. Kicked off the court, Mack takes a job in a car wash ("I got the cleanest hands of any fixer around") and wears his cool like a man who couldn't care less. But he's crying on the inside, warming a cold old hope of playing with the pros...
Beginning last March, Rink had cross transplants and transfusions with two patients, both of whom have since died. Then he had exchanges with two more patients. Last week Roswell Park pathologists sent Dr. Houghton an encouraging report: their microscopic examinations of Larry Rink's cells, like their most recent X rays and physical examinations, showed no sign of cancer...
Larry Rink, of Centreville, Mich., who quit high school to work in a paper mill, was only 20 when his right leg had to be amputated because of bone cancer. In less than a year, the disease recurred with its usual malignancy. To Dr. Ray Houghton, an osteopathic physician of White Pigeon, it seemed that Rink's only chance lay in cross-transplants of cancer tissues with other patients-a bold technique under investigation at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo (TIME, March...
Rink, who got married two years ago and whose wife expects a baby in September, looked forward jubilantly to getting an artificial leg and a steady job. Osteopath Houghton was more guarded: "We cannot say he is cured-we have to wait five or ten years before we can speak of a cure. But if the disease had progressed normally, this patient would have been dead by now." The Roswell Park doctors, determined not to kindle premature hopes in other cancer victims, said nothing...
STEPPING WESTWARD by Malcolm Bradbury. 390 pages. Houghton Mifflin...