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Tower of Hope. Last week, as he does every week, a man with short-cropped, iron-grey hair, blue eyes and an easy smile stopped in at Room 102L. Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Memorial, the world's biggest cancer hospital, is an outstanding symbol of medicine's determined campaign against a disease which causes one out of every seven deaths in the U.S. Dr. Rhoads also heads the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, whose 14 stories rise beside the hospital. In this tower of hope, the world's most ambitious cancer research laboratory, highly...
Calculating Eye. Lucas Cranach's 16th Century view of the Judgment of Paris was classical in theme only. His illustration of the first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
Angles & Stuff. If few Washington correspondents cared much for Arthur Henning's copy, most of them were fond of him personally. A gentle, friendly little man with iron-grey hair and a big, upturned grin, he is, in the words of a veteran colleague, "the nicest, mildest-mannered guy you'd ever want to meet. Then you read that stuff he writes and it's startling...
...over New Jersey, police were looking for him: Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
Arcaro showed all these qualities one day last February at Santa Anita, aboard an iron-grey stallion named Talon. He was last going into the far turn, with 17 horses ahead of him. He whipped and drove the horse through holes that looked impassable. Then, with a spectacular finish, he won the $50,000 San Antonio Handicap. The next day, watching a newsreel of the race, Arcaro shivered at the chances he had taken...