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Chicago's Art Institute, the third most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...
...been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
Died. Alfred Nu* Steele, 57, board chairman and chief executive officer of the Pepsi-Cola Co., onetime vice president of the Coca-Cola Co., who in 1955 became the fourth husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Working with Dr. Dietrich Hoffmann at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, said Dr. Wynder, he has found in the tar no fewer than 17 hydrogen-carbon compounds of the polycyclic group (i.e., with several carbon rings in the molecule). Nine have been exonerated, but to the six already known to produce cancer on the backs of mice the Wynder-Hoffmann team has added two more-3.4-benzfluoranthene and 10.11-benzfluoranthene. But these chemicals occur only in minute quantities in cigarette...
There are some cases where a carefully chosen antifever drug is what the doctor should order after thorough diagnosis, Dr. Done concedes. But in general he agrees with Manhattan's late Physiologist Eugene F. Du Bois: "Fever is only a symptom, and we are not sure that it is an enemy. Perhaps it is a friend...