Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they see safety in filters. Starting from practically nowhere, filter cigarettes have now taken over nearly a third of the U.S. cigarette output. Are the filters really any good? Scientists insist that, while they may have incidental benefits, present filters are relatively futile against dangerous tobacco tars. But the Sloan-Kettering Institute's noted cancer fighter, Dr. Ernest Wynder, believes that he can render smoking less harmful partly by making filters more effective, partly by chemically treating the tobacco leaf. It remains to be seen whether the tobacco industry will adopt these means and, if so, whether a smoke...
...growing chain of evidence indicates that a mysterious kind of immunity protects most people against cancer. Newly forged links in the chain, reported in Chicago last week by investigators at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute...
...Instead of textbooks, syllabuses, and spoon-fed lectures, students will rely much more on their own wide (and required) reading of pertinent books and primary sources in the library. The whole idea, sums up President John Sloan Dickey, is to end the student's "dependence on teaching," and declare his "independence in learning...
...years, and only one was a nonsmoker; among noncancer patients, only 50% smoked so much, and 11% were nonsmokers. The evidence was highly suggestive, but it fell short of proof that there was anything in cigarette smoke to cause cancer. Graham and Wynder (now of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute) went to work again. With tar from machine-smoked cigarettes they produced cancers on the backs of mice. In 1951 Dr. Graham quit smoking. That same year he retired...
...Carl Sloan '58, Council vice-President, reported a list of nine items to be included in the guide book to be sent to incoming freshman. To be included is advice on clothing, cleaning, room accoutrements, free entertainment, snacks, school supplies, travel, banking and personal services. The report will not mention any individual firms, since such information can be obtained from the Registration issue of the CRIMSON...