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Geographically Interesting. The link between these two seemingly unrelated diseases is suggested in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. In equatorial Africa, he points out, at least 40% of all childhood cancers are lymphatic, but they rarely take the form of leukemia and are almost invariably solid tumors. They are usually seen first in the jawbones (though they also attack other bones and internal organs) of children aged three to eight...
...Married. Sloan Wilson, 42, novelist of the East Coast's well-tailored society; and Betty Joan Stephens, 28, Manhattan public relations girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in Dublin...
...John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, Robert Henri, Everett Shinn...
Billie Sol tried his best to talk back. He brought in a new editor, Tracy Sloan Byers from Odessa. His paper broke out in a rash of loud headlines-NOTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT ESTES GRAIN STORAGE, and POLITICAL HACKS KEEP UP STRUGGLES FOR HEADLINES-the sort of things Billie Sol could show off to friends. A passel of reporters came to town, and Byers almost hollered up a fit: "One concludes that the newspaper hatchet men sent to Pecos are instructed to find and write any fictitious or fabulous story, without regard to its truthfulness . . One cheerful thought is that Pecos...
Another vital G.M. legacy from the Sloan era is G.M.'s overriding emphasis on a strong, healthily prosperous dealer organization. Sloan picked his dealers carefully, watched over their accounting methods, and saw to it that they were all geographically spaced to divide the market properly. After the 1955 auto glut-when the company was accused of forcing so many cars on dealers that they had to dump them at almost any price-G.M., with prompting from the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, further improved its dealer relations. It extended dealer contracts from one year to five...