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First intimation of that momentous idea occurred April 8 when the President sat down in the White House with three curious groups: 1) Mrs. Roosevelt and her friend Esther Everett Lape, manager of the American Foundation which Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok finances out of Saturday Evening Post profits; 2) the Nation's official doctors-Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. of the U. S. Public Health Service, Chairman Gary Travers Grayson of the Red Cross, and the President's Personal Physician Ross Mclntire; 3) ten private practitioners, including Otologist Samuel Joseph Kopetzky of the New York State Medical...
...visiting doctors told the President that they had carefully studied a two-volume survey which Miss Lape had published three days prior. Called American Medicine-Expert Testimony out of Court* these books contained the recommendations of 2,000 doctors for remedying the state of U. S. Medicine, including the difficulties of sick people in getting good medical services and the difficulties of good doctors in earning a decent living. Deliberately omitted from those questioned were doctors who might have an ax to grind, such as the executives and trustees of the American Medical Association...
Gist of Miss Lape's survey, said Dr. Osgood, who volunteered as spokesman for the President's guests, was: 1) doctors want a Secretary of Health in the Cabinet, 2) doctors are willing to become executors of a Federal public health program which would look after the health of every U. S. inhabitant...
...mention was made of Esther Everett Lape, new assistant to Curtis Bok, the Orchestra's president (TIME...
...everyone knew that Miss Lape was Stokowski's choice for manager. Nor did the letter refer to the board's decision to offer the job to Benjamin ("Pep") Ludlow, a Philadelphia lawyer better acquainted with welfare work than with music. The end of Stokowski's statement was suitably regretful: "I am sad at the thought that I must now leave the Orchestra that I have worked so hard to help build up. ... I wish to pass over in silence and forget our deep-lying differences of opinion and remember "only the beauty and inspiration of the music we have made...