Medicine: Memorial's Milestone

With his spectacles down to the tip of his nose and mischief in his eyes, Professor James Ewing of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital sat slouched at the Waldorf-Astoria's long banquet table one evening last week. He and 400 others were saluting the semicentennial of Memorial, first exclusive cancer hospital in the U S., second in the world.* At the speakers' table were, among others, President Dean Lewis of the American Medical Association; President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; Harry Pelham Robbins of Manhattan's Empire Trust Co., who presided; Lucius Nathan Littauer, glovemaking benefactor; William...