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...this note last week, General Motors' Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Research Chief Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering announced a $4.000.000 gift by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish a Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. It was the largest single private donation ever made for cancer study. It will help make Manhattan's Memorial Hospital the largest cancer research center and cancer hospital in the world...
Half of the money will be spent on an Institute building ; the rest will provide an operating income of $200.000 a year for ten years. Donor Sloan hopes that others will contribute more money for running expenses - an annual income of $500,000 would just about do the trick. (Meanwhile New York City will add a $1.500,000, 300-bed unit, the Dr. James Ewing Hospital, to the Memorial center. And Memorial itself is planning a campaign to raise $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 for equipment and other needs...
...world travel affects the Navy's 31-year-old, Rumanian-born Lieut. Saul Steinberg, who has spent the past two years being shifted about the world in uniform, scribbling cartoons in his spare time. Last week Cartoonist Steinberg published his first book of drawings, All in Line (Duett, Sloan & Pearce...
...Music Is GONE - LeGarde Doughty-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In St. John's County. Florida, a country doctor fights malaria, delivers babies, sends a young protegee to medical school. Sketchy but full of authentic characters and atmosphere...
Katy was on the verge of bankruptcy when Sloan took over. By whittling away at Katy's debt, Sloan should be able to keep the line out of the sheriff's clutches when its freight and passenger traffic goes back to normal levels after...