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...Hint from Hormones. Drs. Konrad Dobriner and Cornelius P. Rhoads of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital reported progress on Memorial's pet project-the search for the long-suspected link between hormones and cancer. After five years of extracting and peering, the doctors recently isolated a new hormonelike substance, called "Compound 18," that appears in the urine of almost all cancer patients, and almost never in normal urine. "18" may some day prove helpful in the detection of hidden internal cancer. One trouble is that 18 sometimes turns up in connection with various noncancerous conditions, such as high blood...
WILSON: THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE (528 pp.) - Arthur S. Link-Princeton University...
From Princeton's University press, and from the pen of Arthur S. Link of Princeton's history department, Road to the White House is the first volume of a projected four-to eight-volume study. Coming from Princeton, where Woodrow Wilson is still a lively subject of conversation, it is painstaking and generally sympathetic, but now & then sharply criti-cal. It is also more academic and less anecdotal than Ray Stannard Baker's eight-volume Life & Letters. Wilson could be "cold, ruthless and stubborn," says Link, though firm and eloquent in defense of his beliefs. But "there...
Wilson's long-drawn-out battles against Princeton's "exclusive" undergraduate eating clubs and its "exclusive" graduate school, says Link, were due at least as much to Wilson's bullheadedness as to his democratic faith and educational ideals...
Historian Link sees a strong likeness between Princeton's Wilson (whom the University trustees eventually forced out) and the Wilson of the White House. "During the first years of both administrations, Wilson drove . . . through a magnificent reform program. . . . His accomplishments both at Princeton and Washington were great and enduring. Yet in both cases he drove so hard, so flatly refused to delegate authority, and broke with so many friends that when the inevitable reaction set in, he was unable to cope with the new situation. His refusal to compromise in the graduate college controversy was almost Princeton...