Holy Money

Almost as famed as Rochester, N. Y., hometown of George ("Kodak") Eastman is Rochester, Minn. (named for Rochester, N. Y.), seat of the Mayo Clinic. Last week Rochester's first citizen, Dr. William James Mayo, chugged into Memphis, Tenn., on his gasoline cruiser North Star on his way north from a Florida fishing trip. A newsgatherer got him talking about something he and his younger brother, Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, seldom discuss: money. Dr. Mayo assured his interviewer of a fact which Rochester, Minn., has long...

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