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...Albert Lasker Awards of the American Public Health Association was a doctor who has handed out more money for more medical research than any other man in the world-a total far greater than all the Rockefeller grants in this field. The doctor: Cassius James Van Slyke, 56, who has never practiced for any patient other than Uncle...
After a typical run of humdrum assignments as a U.S. Public Health Service surgeon, Van Slyke found himself at World War II's end investigating the potency of penicillin as a treatment for venereal disease. When the price of penicillin plummeted, freeing money previously earmarked for this project. Van Slyke was assigned to distribute $400,000 in grants for medical research. With this modest sum, Van Slyke began in 1946 by cautiously asking medical schools whether they could tse any money. He was promptly deluged with requests, and Congress gradually upped its medical research approprialtion...
Realizing that no one man could have the knowledge to pass on thousands of requests dealing with projects on the unmarked frontiers of a dozen medical sciences, Van Slyke has organized specialists in each field into study councils to make recommendations. Most of the time, Van Slyke and his advisers were right in their choice of projects to back, notably research with anti-TB drugs, the momentous blood-fractionation work of Harvard's late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Sept. 12, 1953), various artificial heart, lung and kidney machines, basic studies seeking better understanding and treatment of heart disease. Ironically...
Tuberculosis fighters are convinced that the absolute weapon against the disease is only a few million dollars off. Dr. Cassius J. Van Slyke, chief of the PHS research grants division, thinks that $6,000,000 a year for research (instead of the present $500,000) would solve the problem within a few years. Says he: one big push would...
Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate...