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More funds from the Combined Charities Drive went to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and the American Cancer Society than any other charity, David L. Stark '54, of the Student Council, announced last night Undergraduate donors chose to give the two groups...
...human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims, or a measuring stick for popularity and good fellowship? Come on, folks, let's be grown up and give this thing time...
...hope that Miss Baker and Mr. Robinson are not trying to buy their way into the Stork Club by giving to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. The $80,000 which they recently gave to the fund could have been contributed to Negro organizations...
...fired off a telegram to Winchell, demanding an explanation. The row was fanned busily by the New York Post, which often vies with Winchell as the foremost champion of human rights. Then Fighter Sugar Ray Robinson weighed in. Sugar Ray said he would regretfully quit Winchell's Damon Runyon Memorial Fund unless Billingsley, also on the fund committee, "cleared up the situation immediately." Josephine Baker had given the fund the $20,000 proceeds of a Los Angeles appearance and Sugar Ray had just returned from a $60,000 benefit for it in Boston. Said Sugar...
...Phillips Brooks House, the Salzburg Seminar, and the World Student Service Fund, depend almost completely on money raised through colleges. The WSSF, the one notable addition to last year's drive, sends its funds to rehabilitate student centers in war-torn countries. The other causes, such as the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and the Children's Medical Center, are well deserving of support...