Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them to an abundance of his intelligent attention and personal warmth. He was also an exceptionally alert recruiter of new talent. Remembers Heiskell: "He was terribly proud of bringing up people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were James Agee, who became TIME'S film critic, and Sloan Wilson, who worked as Larsen's assistant and modeled his best-selling 1955 novel, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, partly on his boss. Says Wilson: "Roy had energy, courtesy, selfdiscipline. When most people were running on twelve volts, he was running on 440 volts. Asking...
...escorting his diamond-studded Miss America wife into the hill country and substituting television blitzes and phone banks for local organizations. He spent more than $1 million of his own money on the campaign. Glamour and greenbacks proved a winning combination, giving Brown 29% of the vote; Runner-Up Sloan received 24%. But former Governor Louie Nunn, the Republican nominee, is a street-fighter who will give Brown a tough race. His first salvo was to call his opponent "a snake-oil salesman...
...this man, and why is he saying all those nice things about the human race? The first question is simpler than the second. Lewis Thomas, 65, is a doctor and an administrator (currently president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City). He is a biologist, a researcher and a professor. He is a published poet and, quite possibly, the best essayist on science now working anywhere in the world...
...York University medical school. In 1969 Thomas moved to Yale as a professor and chairman of the medical school's department of pathology; three years later he was named dean of the medical school. He left after a year at that to take charge of the Sloan-Kettering complex in Manhattan, one of the most important cancer research and treatment centers in the world...
Thomas still writes his monthly column, one job among many in his crowded professional life. He is a familiar figure in the halls at Sloan-Kettering, walking quickly, the tall figure canted slightly forward at the waist, his lab coat billowing out behind him, Groucho-style. He is on the run elsewhere as well, making frequent trips to Washington for committee work and to testify at congressional hearings, and to Cambridge, where he serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers. In his laboratory he continues experimenting, currently studying two microbes that lack cell walls and observing how they interact with...