John Davison Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $3,000,000 in cash and securities and $900,000 in land to build a new cancer hospital in mid-Manhattan across the street from his Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The building will house Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer & Allied Diseases.
Memorial Hospital will soon abandon its 49-year-old quarters on the upper west side of Central Park, either to a hospital organization not too finicky about modernism or to an apartment house promoter.
Most happy over the Rockefeller gift was zealous, learned Dr. James...
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