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When Albert was operated on in 1950, and I was told that he had cancer of the intestines, I realized he was in grave danger. I talked to Dr. Freddy Homberger of Tufts College in Boston and asked him if he would, for a fee, travel around the country to interview anyone in the cancer field who might have some therapy which could be used on Albert eventually in case he had are ocurrence and asked him to find places where some research funds could be spent by me with the possible hope of clinical development. Homberger himself arranged with Farber of Childrens Hospital in Boston to be allowed to test compounds under his (Homberger's) direction that were found to be effective in leukemia on cancer of the large bowel. He thought that if one drug was effective on one type of cancer maybe it would be effective on another type, and this, indeed, has happened. Nothing good was found for cancer of the large bowel, however, and only in the last few years has anything been found to touch the type of tumor that grows there, and that was found by a group in the University of Wisconsin under Heidelberger, and is called 5-flourauracil.

Homberger, however, brought to my attention someone of great importance in the field of pituitary hormones, in fact the discover of six hormones of the anterior pituitary, Dr. C.H. Li of the University of California at Berkeley. C. H. Li had been important in the purification of ACTH, which is the hormone of the pituitary which drives the adrenal and pushed it to make cortisone, and he had identified and made growth hormone, a new hormone from the intermedan of the pituitary gland, which controls pigmentation. I've supported C.H. Li through the Foundation for many years in