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Sophomore Tom Callahan was fifth in a fast collegiate 880-yard run. Yale sophomore Steve Bittner hit the tape in 1:53.6, a tenth of a second off the meet record. Callahan finished...
...Callahan does not claim that his donation approach is new, and medical folklore is full of tales about wealthy benefactors who have been tapped this way. Most stories turn out, on investigation, to be false, though Houston's famed heart surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey gets many donations this...
After Ingalls stopped laughing, he picked up the phone and told his attorney to draw up incorporation papers for Eye Foundation, Inc., to which he eventually, gave $25,000. It took Dr. Callahan ten years to raise, by the same dollar-extraction technique, the rest of the $1,500,000 that he needed to get the hospital opened and operating. Along the way, he called on Lumber Millionaire Alfred S. Mitchell to ask for a donation. Mitchell was also having trouble with his eyes. An on-the-spot examination revealed cataracts, which Dr. Callahan later removed. Again, no bill. Mitchell...
Last week, as proof of patients' gratitude, Dr. Callahan had the promise of a new Mitchell Foundation gift of $600,000. Two other foundations are meeting soon to consider additional grants. One is headed by John E. Meyer, who suffered an eye wound as a fighter pilot in World War II, and periodically goes to Dr. Callahan to have long-hidden metal fragments removed...
...surgeons, even more than heart surgeons, seem to have an emotional advantage in this type, of fundraising. Says Dr. Callahan: "A fellow can go to a doctor with a bellyache, get better, and say to himself, 'Hell, I might have gotten well anyway.' But with the eyes, you can't say that. If you have cataracts, you know that unless they're removed, you won't get well...