Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 specialized scientists and technicians experiment endlessly in the war against cancer; from it have come strange new treatments that have, so far, kept...
...Wartime Method. Dr. Rhoads's jobs as head of Memorial and of Sloan-Kettering allow him little time for his favorite recreation-sailing. Like most men named Rhoads, he is called "Dusty" by his friends. Born in Springfield. Mass. 51 years ago, he graduated from-Harvard Medical School in 1924. He has long been a successful medical scientist, and today he could be mistaken for the go-getting president of a big university...
Knife & Radiation. "External forces" are the business of Sloan-Kettering Institute and all the other centers of cancer research, which are spending something like $50 million in the U.S. annually. At present the only known cure for cancer is destruction: the surgeon's knife or radiation (X rays and radium). Such methods work well with some forms of cancer. Skin cancer, for instance, can nearly always be removed so completely that it does not recur. Other accessible cancers can be dealt with too, and surgical methods are improving constantly. A recent advance saves many patients who have a vital...
With reason, most U.S. colleges complain about the stormy financial weather they see ahead. Nevertheless, last week a few windfalls blew in: ¶ Massachusetts Institute of Technology received $5,100,000 from alumni. Biggest gift: $1,000,000 from General Motors Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr., class of '95, for a new metals-processing laboratory...
...Alexander C. Nagle, president of Manhattan's First National Bank; George A. Sloan, publisher of the Southern Agriculturist; William A. Irvin, ex-president of U.S. Steel; Counsel Nathan L. Miller, onetime governor of New York; Chairman Olds; President Fairless...