Medicine: International Surgeons

Until last week Mrs.Millicent Hearst's chief medical philanthropies had been her Free Milk Fund for Babies Inc., which she finances by means of prize fights, tennis tournaments and indoor rodeos; an annual Christmas morning cinema for crippled Manhattan children, which she failed to hold last week; and the New York Infirmary for Women & Children, to which she has long contributed handsomely.

Year ago this brown-haired wife of the world's most prominent publisher met Dr.Max Thorek, Chicago gall bladder exciser. Dr. Thorek saw in Mrs. Hearst a likely patroness for a new International College of...

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