International Surgeons

Until last week Mrs.Millicent Hearst's chief medical philanthropies had been her Free Milk Fund for Babies Inc., which she finances by means of prize fights, tennis tournaments and indoor rodeos; an annual Christmas morning cinema for crippled Manhattan children, which she failed to hold last week; and the New York Infirmary for Women & Children, to which she has long contributed handsomely.

Year ago this brown-haired wife of the world's most prominent publisher met Dr.Max Thorek, Chicago gall bladder exciser. Dr. Thorek saw in Mrs. Hearst a likely patroness for a new International College of Surgeons which he was to help an old Manhattan friend, Dr. Harold Lyons Hunt, get on its feet in the face of denunciation by the American Medical Association's mouthpiece, Dr. Morris Fishbein.

Last week the organizers formally launched their project in Manhattan's New York Academy of Medicine. Mrs. Hearst, who as yet has no official or honorary standing in the International College of Surgeons, but who, like her husband and their late good friend Arthur Brisbane (see p. 26) owns considerable Manhattan real estate, promptly offered to erect a Museum of Surgery to house the College's offices, assembly halls, exhibits. The establishment will be called the Millicent V. (for Veronica) Hearst Foundation.

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