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...Baltimore, Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, clinical professor of surgery and director of the Garvan Experimental Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University,! presided over a three-day conference of medical men. Twenty-thousand letters had been sent inviting doctors to instruction in reading X-ray pictures of cancerous bones. Only 300 appeared at Baltimore, but events proved that the 300 needed Dr. Bloodgood's instruction. He had photograph after photograph of cancerous bones and joints thrown on a screen. The 300 were asked to write down their diagnoses. At first very few were correct. But as projections continued scores mounted until...
Into the capacious lap of Yale ("Mother of Men") fell yet another rich gift last week. In honor of his wife Mabel, sister of the late Papal Marquis Nicholas Frederic Brady, and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, onetime alien property custodian (now chemical tycoon) Francis Patrick Garvan presented to the university his enormously valuable collection of early Americana-furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, prints-to be known as the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections. He also set up a Mabel Brady Garvan foundation to take care of them...
Different from most bequests is this Garvan gift. The various articles will not be assembled in one group at New Haven, but will remain where they are now, scattered loans in colleges, museums and restored colonial mansions. Yale's duty will be to keep track and care of them, to keep the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections circulating throughout the land where they may be seen by the greatest numbers of people. Wrote Donor Garvan...
...only suing sisters were Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan and Mrs. Carll Tucker...
Other Business. Winners of many of the Garvan Prizes which total $50,000, were announced. In the U. S. 288 high school pupils will receive $120 each for essays, six of the group will get scholar ships which will send them through col lege. Next year Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur will be chairman of the awards committee, succeeding Herbert Clark Hoover...