Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Botany, his wife, and Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, received a total of $81,000 in research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the last quarter of 1958, a Foundation report announced recently. In addition, Francis M. Pipkin, assistant professor of Physics, has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow by the Sloan Foundation...
...unspecified stipend accompanied Pipkin's Fellowship. One of five newly appointed Sloan Fellows from New England, he will use the gift to support work in the field of nuclear orientation. Since Sloan grants carry no specification as to the nature of research, Pipkin said he might use some of the funds for study in other areas...
...Atlanta, U.S. Judge Boyd Sloan ruled on the petition of three Negroes to enter Georgia State College of Business Administration, found that a state law requiring alumni sponsorship of applicants violates the 14th Amendment because there are no Negro alumni to sponsor Negro applicants. The ruling opened the way for Negroes to apply to all 19 schools in the state's 35,000-student white college system, left it up to Georgia to decide whether to close them all by invoking a state law banning integrated colleges...
...commonest victims of lung cancer, the pioneer researchers in the field have brought out another cold-comfort report: the tar from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung cancer (TIME, March...
...that implicating viruses as at least partly responsible. Though he has never worked with human cancers, and was technically "retired" for age 14 years ago, Peyton Rous still has the same staff, works as hard as ever hunting clues to cancer's causes, doubles as a consultant to Sloan-Kettering Institute...