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...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
...promises of cooperation from several nearby industrial laboratories and the National Association of Science Writers, as well as from Columbia's top scientific and engineering brains, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, ex-editorial director of Newsweek, Teacher Barrett got a $70,000 initial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a program to improve coverage of science. Barrett's program, announced last week: a series of fellowships that will give selected newsmen one free year at Columbia (plus $550 cash monthly) to broaden their knowledge and sharpen their reporting of the subject. Limited at first to four...
...York Hospital's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Dr. Frederic F. Flach. working with the Sloan-Kettering Institute's Dr. Rulon W. Rawson, gave T3 to 24 patients kept on a rigid regimen in a metabolic ward where everything they ate, drank and excreted was weighed and analyzed. Most were schizophrenics; some were psychoneurotics. Nearly all were depressed (at times suicidal), emotionally unresponsive, resentful, uninterested in sex and depersonalized (common complaints were "I am numb" and "Everything I do is automatic...
...until the early '30s did Detroit's automakers realize the potential of launching new-looking models (but not too new) every year to lure more customers. Under G.M. President Alfred P. Sloan, Harley Earl set up the first full-fledged styling section, and in the process gave G.M. the style lead for more than 20 years. Earl pioneered the rounded body for mass-production cars, slanted windshields, fenders that projected over the doors, the hardtop convertible. Despite G.M.'s success others were slow to follow. Even as late as 1948, Chrysler President K. T. Keller hotly defended...
...most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50?). To the original edition, which has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the changing climate of the past decade: parents ought to be more permissive toward themselves...