Medicine: Donner & Cancer

Three years after his son's death from cancer, William Henry Donner, steel man, last week gave $2,000,000 for research in cancer. The gift, administered by a new International Cancer Research Foundation, was one of the largest ever sent to war against a particular division of disease.

Two years ago Dr. James Ewing, generalissimo of the world's anti-cancer forces, recommended that six $10,000,000 institutions be erected in different parts of the U. S. to attack cancer on all its fronts. Mr. Donner and his advisers* do not entirely agree. None of his $2,000,000 may be spent for...

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