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...little poodle trotted to & fro one day last fortnight in the old Manhattan house where Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel lay dead (TIME, March 23). He went into the room where Rev. Drs. Nathan A. Seagle and Ezra Squier Tipple were getting ready to conduct the funeral. He jumped up & down before them, "as if," said Dr. Seagle, "he were pleading to serve as an acolyte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Rich Dog | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade (Cont'd.) | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Although Dr. Hartwell & friends who last week opposed opening "The Monastery" as a clinic "do not for a minute question the sincerity of Drs. Coffey and Humber in believing they have something of value," the critics "do question the way they have handled their work." The New York men are certain that their San Francisco colleagues have had no training to qualify for research in "the most complex field that exists" in medicine. They do not believe that adrenal cortex extract will cure cancer or that it has value in cancer treatment, yet are willing to experiment with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade (Cont'd.) | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

This was obviously a campaign to ostracize Drs. Coffey & Humber from Manhattan's vicinity. It was conducted?as Lawyer Satterlee diligently pointed out?"by persons who had their own methods, hospitals and funds." It was a "Chinese Wall," against which he protested to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade (Cont'd.) | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...April 1930 the Patent Office refused them the patent. But Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, asked the Patent Office to handle the matter with special expedition. On July 1, 1930 Drs. Coffey & Humber resubmitted their patent application, had it granted the next day. This vexed Professor John Morse Rehfisch of Stanford University School of Medicine (Dr. Wilbur is president of Stanford University in absentia, Herbert Hoover a trustee). In sarcastic comment to the American Medical Association Dr. Rehfisch called the patent grant "an example of speed and efficiency which is a true tribute to the Great Engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade (Cont'd.) | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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