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book on cancer and the present status of research in the field. I provided this $5,000 as a result of his request. He later phoned me and asked me if I thought my husband would be interested in being on the board of the Society and doing something about publicizing the needs in the cancer field. I replied that I thought my husband would not be interested in doing this as he did not like to work with organizations. God knows he couldn't stand such nonsense. I said that I would introduce him to Mr. Emerson Foote, who was then the head of Foote, Cone and Belding, which is the successor firm to my husband's Lord and Thomas, Albert's protege.

We met with Emerson and Dr. Little asked him to come on the board which Emerson agreed to do. I was delighted and later found out that Emerson was deeply interested, as both his parents had died of cancer. He tried to be helpful to the Society in the '44 campaign for funds but found so little in the way of organization or know-how that he did not feel able to do a great deal. However, their funds raised did increase to 832,000 dollars. Such little as he knew resulted in better than a hundred percent more. We had many discussions about how to raise funds that might be really adequate to solve the problem some day, and determined that what was needed was a really good campaign director. I had met Leo Casey, who worked with Wendell Willkie and with Albert about a year before. We both were impressed with him and felt he might do a good job for the Society. Consequently, we offered to pay his salary of $18,000 if the Society would take him on as campaign director, working toward an energetic