Medicine: Midwest's Mayos

The late Drs. William and Charles Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., who hated publicity so much that they once wanted to sue for "libel" a newspaper which praised them, this week are the subject of an authorized biography. Five years ago, three years before they died, the Mayo brothers gave the University of Minnesota permission to publish a biography of themselves and their pioneer father, Dr. William Worrall Mayo, who died in 1911, at 91. The Doctors Mayo, published this week by the University of Minnesota Press ($3.75), is authored by a onetime Minnesota...