Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graduate School of Education has received a $100,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish approximately 20 national fellowships for future teachers of science and mathematics on the secondary school level, Francis Keppel, Dean of the Faculty of Education, disclosed yesterday...
N.A.S.S.P. President George E. Shattuck and Executive Secretary Paul E. Elicker called the first installment of LIFE'S "Crisis in Education" series "a degrading misrepresentation of today's program," referred to part of an article by Novelist Sloan Wilson (LIFE, March 24) as "a caricature of secondary education." cited charges of statistical inaccuracy brought by Dr. Harold C. Hand, University of Illinois education professor...
...serialization in McCall's ($100.000) and a Hollywood sale ($500,000 plus 25% of the profits), the book is as good a property as the oil wells Wilson bought with his earnings from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. There is a touch of poetic justice about Sloan Wilson's success, for he used to be far more fascinated by business than by the writing game, once dreamed of making his fortune in soybeans. (He was born into a Connecticut literary family, and his financial fancies, he thinks, were a kind of "adolescent rebellion in reverse...
Marquand-Type Society. While Wilson signed a more or less routine contract with his publisher Simon & Schuster, his royalties are above the 15% top writers receive, and certain unusual details are involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie...
With this financial peace of mind, likened by Sloan Wilson, sometime teacher of English, to a professor's "permanent tenure," Novelist Wilson, at 37, hopes to become "an old-fashioned man of letters whose obituary lists 20 or so novels to his credit." Unpretentious about his writing so far ("a small, humble and private thing"), Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet...