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another year?” This did it. I decided to call up John Price Jones and made an offer to pay them if the Society would agree to put aside 25 percent of anything they raised in the '45 campaign for cancer research. It was conditional on their putting aside the 25 percent.

Under whose aegis had you thought the research would be conducted then?

Well, I wasn't worried about that, because there were doctors on the board who were interested in research, and I thought we'll deal with that when we get the money, because Dr. Warren F. Draper was on the board, and Dr. Adair and other doctors that I thought would be competent to deal with the problem, if and when we got money.

At this point was your husband concerned with the efficiency of the campaign?

Not desperately. Emerson Foote and I were concerned with the efficiency but Albert still thought that it was something we were playing with, and it didn't get real to him until a few months later, and I will tell you what happened.

I made this proposal about the 25 percent of anything raised for the Cancer Society to Mr. Ripley, then the President of the Society, and then to Dr. Little and then to Dr. Adair. In any case, it was agreed to, and I arranged with John Price