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We went to Leeds Castle for a weekend. Jimmy Fordyce had invited Herbert Boyer, Dr. Boyer, and Mr. Swanson and his wife, who were on their honeymoon, to come, to join us there. We had a marvelous large lunch of people from Burroughs-Wellcome, who were very jealous, I would have thought, of the genetic people who had cloned interferon and they did not yet have a clone of it. We went to the most beautiful garden in the world. You have to go! (pause in recording)

Q:

You went to Sissinghurst.

Lasker:

Yes. And we went to visit Sir Richard Doll at Oxford at the new college of medicine that's been established by a Dr. Green of Dallas, Texas, at Oxford. Can you imagine the generosity of somebody from Dallas, Texas giving them $6 million?

Q:

He must have oil wells.

Lasker:

I'm sure, at least. He has Texas Instruments, I think. Then we went to Cambridge to visit some people who were finding that there was a sub-species of leukocyte interferon, who were doing it in a laboratory.

We went to the theater a couple of nights -- saw “Amadeus” with Paul Scofield, who is marvelous.





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