Leaders of U. S. Medicine went to Philadelphia last June to lament Dr. William Williams Keen (1837-1932), their senior (1900) A. M. A. past president (TIME, June 20). Dr. Keen's death made Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago senior (1902-04) of the A. M. A.'s past presidents. Last week the medical leaders journeyed to Chicago. Dr. Billings. 78 and long ailing, had slipped on a rug in the home which he shared with his only child, Mrs. George R. Nichols II, and died of internal hemorrhage.
Dr. Billings had outlived many builders of...
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