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Shortly after he emerged from the operating room following six hours of surgery at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center last week, Hubert Humphrey asked his wife, "Muriel, how are the polls corning out in Minnesota?" That joshing question by a Senator virtually assured of re-election told as much about his condition as his doctors' optimistic prognosis. Though a cancerous bladder had just been removed, the 65-year-old former Vice President had lost none of his spirit, loquaciousness and will to survive-physically or politically...
...enable the schools in the study to better pinpoint their specific problem areas and to compare their ratings with similar institutions, Change, with the help of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is sending them their scores for each of 16 indicators as well as their overall rating...
WHAT SHALL WE WEAR TO THIS PARTY? by SLOAN WILSON 442 pages. Arbor House...
...Sloan Wilson reports in these amiable memoirs that in 1955, after the vast sales of his novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, tailors sought him out and begged him to accept, gratis, suits of fine gray flannel. Wilson's book had already confirmed what everybody knew-that the gray flannel suit had become the uniform of some sort of success in a tall building in New York. Wilson felt that to wear one would be to indulge in ridiculous self-advertisement. It says something about the careful, rather unimaginative Wilson, as well as about the doleful plumage...
...five persons elected to six-year terms as Overseers are Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.); Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College; Lewis Thomas, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Leo Goldberg '34, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory...