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...York Sun decided to become a doctor. To earn his tuition at Long Island College of Medicine, he wrote baseball stories for a boys' magazine. So popular were his tales that the editor offered him $5,000 a year to leave medical school. Fortunately for Science. Fred Tilney wanted to be a professor. He graduated with honors, studied neurology in Germany, went back to teach in Columbia. Later, he wrote 111 books and articles on the evolution of the brain, encephalitis, a score of other subjects, reorganized single-handed the famed Neurological Institute of New York. When he died...
Last week in Manhattan a group of prominent doctors, scientists, lawyers, businessmen, socialites announced that they had raised $35,000 towards a $150,000 research fellowship in neurology, to keep Dr. Tilney's memory green. The members of Tilney Memorial, Inc. have already appointed a committee to find a young man who may carry on Dr. Tilney's research on brain evolution, the relation between brain structure and human behavior...
...over 25 years modest Dr. Tilney spent long hours with his patients and his laboratory, studying brain tissues of men, apes, rats, reptiles, birds, fish. He believed that most men use only a quarter of the 14 billion cells of the brain cortex. "The brain of modern man," said he, "is only some intermediate stage in the ultimate development of the master organ of life." When man's brain finally bursts into full bloom, he prophesied, depressions and wars will disappear...
...silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great Neurologist Frederick Tilney. Last year, after wielding an influence among devoted young neurologists second only to that of famed Harvey Gushing (see p. 60), Dr. Tilney died. As acting director, the trustees appointed modest Dr. Robert Frederick Loeb. Last week, warmhearted, diplomatic Tracy Putnam came down from Harvard to take Dr. Tilney...
...John Cunningham Jr., William B. Durant, Jr., Alanson T. Enos, III, John B. Fallon, F. C. S. Grace, Francis A. Harding, Jr., Charles G. Houghton Jr., C. Hovey Jr., Francis R. King, John D. Lannon Jr., D. Prouty, Henry E. Russell, Kenneth F. Sands, Benjamin A. Smith, Robert W. Tilney...