The American Cancer Society, which shares national fund-raisers' love for running their own big campaigns, served a November 1957 ultimatum on 300 (out of some 3,000) local chapters that have joined United Fund-Community Chest rives. The order: get out of combined drives or out of A.C.S. Last week in Rochester, the local cancer society became the first to take the second alternative, created a local splinter cancer society. Explained an editorial in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle:
"Laymen and doctors in the Monroe County chapter stand on the principle that it would...
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