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Medicine: Surgeons & Fathers

In addition to being the most famed U. S. surgeons, Brothers William James Mayo, 72, and Charles Horace Mayo, 68, are also fathers of some renown. Brother William has two daughters; Brother Charles has two sons, six daughters. When last week the Mayos placed a fresh $500,000 beside the $1,500,000 with which in 1915 they established University of Minnesota's Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research at Rochester, they accompanied their gift by a statement in both capacities.

Wrote they: ''Since our money came from the sick, we believe it ought to return...

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