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...while the class remained marked by the War--it was not only the largest but the oldest in history--seniors in the class of 1948 could give up their war-torn fatigues and opt for what author Sloan Wilson would later call "the gray flannel suit" (on sale at the Coop for $45 to $60 by April...
...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Dr. Mark Malkin is working with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...
Looking back at TIME's extensive coverage of cancer helped me put this hope and frustration into perspective. In 1949 we did a cover on cancer fighter Cornelius Rhoads, whose Sloan-Kettering Institute had tested 1,500 chemicals on mice in hopes of finding "chemotherapy" treatments. In a cover 10 years later, we predicted that "drug treatment will emerge as the equivalent of surgery and radiation," and quoted the National Cancer Institute's John Heller as saying, "I'm confident that we will have some success in the next few years...
...voting shares; fund directors currently occupy three of the eight board seats. Grune also oversees seven foundations that, along with another, smaller, fund, now own 25 million shares (30%) of the company's nonvoting stock. They supply money directly to a few elite New York City institutions, including the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company slashed its dividend in July, these institutions were confronted by a drop in their yearly payouts from $58.7 million to $29.4 million. The funds, for instance, provided $8.2 million, or 11%, of the $75 million operating budget...
Campbell received the award for the publication of The Econometrics of Financial Markets, which he co-authored with Andrew W. Low, professor of finance at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and A. Craig MacKinlay, professor of finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania...