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...GRAY FLANNEL SUIT (304 pp.)-Sloan Wilson-Simon and Schuster...
This is a first novel from the familiar outskirts of suburban discontent where the personalities are sometimes as split-level as the houses. Novelist Sloan Wilson, 35, English instructor at the University of Buffalo, is a small mirror of J. P. Marquand and he has written a kind of Sincerely, Willis Wayde in reverse. His hero is a thirtyish young man who rather naively decides that the only way he can achieve inner peace and fiscal happiness is by selling his soul to a large Manhattan corporation, and starts to do so only to find that...
...smoking could hardly cause cancer of the inner lung without causing many cancers of the more exposed larynx. Yet the death rate from larynx cancer has not gone up in step with that from lung cancer. This question was tackled by Epidemiologist Ernest L. Wynder, of Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who created a stir 17 months ago when he produced cancers consistently on the backs of mice by using tobacco tar. Said Researcher Wynder: larynx cancer has become commoner, but it has not become a commoner cause of death. Reason: earlier detection and therefore more...
Died. George Arthur Sloan, 61, industrialist (U.S. Steel. Goodyear Tire and Rubber) and president (since May 15) of the International Chamber of Commerce, who resigned in April after nine years as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association, 17 years as a member of the board; after an operation; in Manhattan...
...Henri, Sloan, Shinn, Luks, Glackens, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast and Arthur Davies...