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...immunity to cancer; even when cancer cells are injected or implanted under the skin of a healthy person, they die off and cause no disease. Cancer patients lack this immunity, and cancer cells from another victim will grow for a while in their bodies. Researchers at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute discovered these two basic facts years ago by injecting cancer cells into themselves, into prisoner-volunteers at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, and into cooperating patients with advanced cancer, at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. But a nagging question remained: Is this lack of immunity peculiar...
Last week the Sloan-Kettering researchers, headed by Dr. Chester M. Southam, announced the answer. With the cooperation of Dr. Emanuel E. Mandel at Brooklyn's Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, cancer cells were injected under the skin of 19 patients severely ill from non-cancer diseases. The cancer cells did not "take" in any of these non-cancer patients (though four have since died, and one of them had an unrelated, hitherto undetected cancer of the bladder). Immunity to cancer is evidently a universal phenomenon, and it is lost only in the special circumstances, still not understood, in which...
Before the experiment started, Sloan-Kettering doctors satisfied themselves there was no danger that any of the subjects would contract cancer. What the doctors wanted to measure was the rate of cancer-cell rejection. But the fact that patients were not told the exact nature of the injections made the resulting outcry understandable...
Sparring with reporters last week, Sloan was asked if he could name any mistakes that he had made in his long years at G.M. "I don't want to keep you up all night," he snapped. "The executive who makes an average of fifty-fifty is doing pretty good." And then the man who shaped the world's biggest enterprise thought of a big failing. "I always made things not big enough," he said. "The demand was always growing faster than I thought...
...With 686,152 shares, Sloan is General Motors' second largest private shareholder after Michigan Philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott (TIME, June 28). Sloan has contributed heavily to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (basic scientific research) and to the Sloan-Kettering Institute (cancer research...