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to demonstrate to my great delight and to the benefit of hundreds of thousands of victims of arthritis. When he and Kandel announced the usefulness of cortisone in arthritis--but I'm getting ahead of my story.

While I was at the Broadmoor Hotel in '43 with Albert, in reading an envelope I had brought with me of clippings, I found a pamphlet from the New York City Cancer Committee, which contained a short article by Dr. C. P. Rhoads of memorial Hospital. This was the first time I had ever heard of Dr. Rhoads, and the article interested me deeply because he said that if a hospital or research group could have as much as the vast sum of $500,000 a year for a few years, certainly great progress could be made in research for a cure for cancer, and that a cure for cancer would certainly be found if the research were properly supported. When I read that no single place had as much as $500,000 for research in cancer, I was infuriated, especially when I thought of the vast economic resources of people of the United States whose total annual income was certainly about 250 billion. I'm fascinated to note that we've gone, 20 years later, up to 560 billion. In business $500,000 wouldn't even be a suitable sum to use for an advertising campaign for a toothpaste. I was appalled that no single laboratory had this amount with which to try to conquer the number-two cause of death of the people of the United States. I was determined to look into the matter when I returned to New York in the fall.