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Last week small, spry, white-haired William Wattis was in San Francisco's St. Francis Hospital taking the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment when word reached him that his company had won the contract to build Hoover Dam. His jolly blue eyes snapped with delight. Wrapped in his bathrobe, and puffing a big, black cigar he talked eagerly...
...Coffey & Humber in San Francisco, for which Federal backing was sought by Hearstpapers and ambitious politicians (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.) is regarded by authorities as an example of the earnest but unfinished independent effort which should be drawn into large, securely financed carefully directed institutions. Professor Ewing thinks the U. S. is far from being properly mobilized for its cancer war. He wants mightier weapons than any now available - six cancer research institutions each endowed with $10,000,000. He would have them scattered across the country, fortresses whither crusaders might rally, whence they might sally...
...Straus once telegraphed her late husband. Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract of the adrenal glands, although the medical profession has been skeptical of "cure" and the doctors themselves insist that they have only an experimental promise (TIME, April 28 et ante). Last week Mrs. Conners summoned them to Manhattan, offered them...
...Humber Left Guard...
...Captain Humber, sturdy guard and the mainstay of the veteran line that Coach Sasse will send against Harvard. Incidentally he wears the same number as Captain Ticknor of Harvard...