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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Additional Descriptive Information
Administrative Information
Restrictions
Series Descriptions
Correspondence, 1935-1988
Subject Files, 1941-1988
Aging, 1948-1988
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by Francesca Morgan under the direction of Peter Hirtle, Curator of Modern Manuscripts.
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| Collection Number: | MS C 466 |
| Creator: | Mahoney, Florence S. |
| Title: | Florence S. Mahoney Papers
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| Dates: | 1935-1988 |
| Quantity: | 4.4 linear feet (11 boxes) |
| Abstract: | Prominent Washington socialite and lobbyist for health causes, most active and well-known during the 1960s and 1970s. Former wife of Miami News publisher Daniel J. Mahoney. Contains correspondence and subject files reflecting Mahoney's interest in medical research, politics, and birth control. Of special interest are her extensive files on the planning and establishment of the National Institute on Aging. Prominent correspondents include E. Grey Dimond, Paul F. Glenn, Lister Hill, Lyndon B. and Lady Bird Johnson, Margaret Sanger and F. Marott Sinex. |
Florence Stephenson Mahoney is a prominent Washington socialite and a lobbyist for health causes who was most active and well-known during the 1960s and 1970s. Through a network of friends and acquaintances, and in particular with her close friend, the medical philanthropist and lobbyist Mary Lasker, Mahoney worked tirelessly to advance health legislation and to promote medical research.
Mahoney first became prominent in Miami society in the 1940s as the wife of Miami News publisher Daniel J. Mahoney. The marriage ended in the early 1950s, and she began to spend most of her time at her Georgetown townhouse. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, she reached the peak of her influence, forming close friendships with an astonishing array of powerful and well-known figures in health policy. Her parties and dinners drew an impressive roster of famous people from all branches of government and the private sector.
During the Nixon Administration, Mahoney began to concentrate more on the issue of aging. In 1974, she helped to push the legislation through Congress which created the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. She then served on its first Advisory Council. Her service to the cause of aging research was acknowledged in the establishment of the annual Florence Mahoney Lecture given at the Institute.
A personal perspective on Florence Mahoney and her influence is found in Mike Gorman's interview with Dr. Stephen
Strickland on Florence Mahoney. It is located in the Mike Gorman Papers, also in the National Library of Medicine's History
of Medicine Division.
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The Florence S. Mahoney papers consist of correspondence and subject files, and have been organized into three series. They are the correspondence series, the subject files, and the aging series. Most of the material dates from the 1950s through the 1980s, reflecting Mahoney's life after she came to Washington. There is almost no material from her years in Miami, and none on her early life.
The collection's showpiece is the correspondence series. Mahoney corresponded frequently with a wide spectrum of physicians and politicians, both in the U.S. and abroad. There is extensive correspondence with E. Grey Dimond, Paul F. Glenn, Lister Hill, Lyndon B. and Lady Bird Johnson, Margaret Sanger and F. Marott Sinex. Surprisingly, there is little correspondence with Mary Lasker.
Although small, Mahoney's general subject files contain some items of interest to the researcher. The files on birth control, for example, reflect Mahoney's and Lasker's interests in that topic. The guest lists found in her party files give a sense of her connections to the Washington elite.
Mahoney's subject files on aging date mostly from the 1970s and 1980s. They contain extensive files on the planning and establishment of the National Institute on Aging. They also hold material on Veterans' Administration programs and correspondence with researchers.
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Restrictions
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| These terms are indexed in the National Library of Medicine's on-line catalog LocatorPlus. Researchers wishing to find related materials should serach the catalog using these terms. |
| MeSH Subjects |
| | Aging |
| | Foundations |
| | Legislation, Medical |
| Personal Names |
| | Dimond, E. Grey (Edmunds Grey), 1918- |
| | Glenn, Paul F., 1930- |
| | Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 |
| | Lasker, Mary |
| | Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 |
| Corporate Names |
| | Gerontological Society |
| | National Institute on Aging |
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Mahoney, Florence S. Florence S. Mahoney papers. 1935-1988. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.; MS C 466.
Florence Mahoney donated her papers to the National Library of Medicine in 1989. Acc. #535.
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Correspondence, 1935-1988
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| Box | Folder |
| | Correspondence with Physicians, 1935-1988 |
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| 1 | 1 | | Anlyan, William G., 1969 |
| 1 | 2 | | Barandun, Silvio, 1967-1970 |
| 1 | 3 | | Birren, James E. (Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California), 1964-1975 |
| | | | see also University of Southern California |
| 1 | 4 | | Bjorksten, Johan (Bjorksten Research Foundation), 1965-1978 |
| 1 | 5 | | Boyle, Edwin Jr., 1959-1968 |
| 1 | 6 | | Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 1963-1969 |
| 1 | 7 | | Bryant, Thomas E., 1977-1978 |
| 1 | 8 | | Butler, Robert N., 1977-1985 |
| 1 | 9 | | Comfort, Alex, 1967-1971 |
| 1 | 10 | | Cooley, Denton A., 1965-1980 |
| 1 | 11 | | Cooper, John A.D., 1973-1984 |
| 1 | 12 | | Diethrich, Edward B. (Arizona Heart Institute), 1975-1985 |
| 1 | 13 | | Dimond, E. Grey and Mary Clark, 1967-1973 |
| 1 | 14 | | Dimond, E. Grey and Mary Clark, 1974-1984 |
| 1 | 15 | | Duncan, Leroy E., Jr., 1970-1974 |
| 1 | 16 | | Duval, Merlin K., 1971-1973 |
| 1 | 17 | | Edwards, Charles C., 1970-1971 |
| 1 | 18 | | Fraumeni, Joseph F., Jr., 1975 |
| 1 | 19 | | Fredrickson, Donald S., 1974-1976 |
| 1 | 20 | | Freedman, Daniel X., 1978-1980 |
| 1 | 21 | | Fudenberg, Hugh, 1974 |
| 1 | 22 | | Gerbode, Frank (Institute of Medical Sciences; Medical Research Institute of San Francisco), 1968-1983 |
| 2 | 1 | | Gofman, John W., 1953-1954 |
| 2 | 2 | | Goldstein, Avram (Addiction Research Foundation), 1976 |
| 2 | 3 | | von Hahn, Holger P., 1967-1974 |
| 2 | 4 | | Harman, Denham, 1966-1976 |
| 2 | 5 | | Hayflick, Leonard, 1973-1981 |
| 2 | 6 | | Hettinger, William P., 1969-1974 |
| 2 | 7 | | Hochschild, Richard, 1972-1973 |
| 2 | 8 | | Hogness, John R., 1971-1972 |
| 2 | 9 | | Homburger, Freddy, 1960-1976 |
| 2 | 10 | | Hrachovec, Josef P., 1966-1973 |
| 2 | 11 | | Hruza, Zdenek, 1962-1970 |
| 2 | 12 | | Ingle, Dwight J., 1967-1968 |
| 2 | 13 | | Lee, Philip R., 1964-1972 |
| 2 | 14 | | Lee, Russel V., 1961-1974 |
| 2 | 15 | | Li, Choh Hao, 1956-1974 |
| 2 | 16 | | Li, Choh-luh, 1962-1973 |
| 2 | 17 | | Lindsay, Donald G., 1969-1970 |
| 2 | 18 | | Mnnarino, Emanuele U. and Maria (Medical Care and Research Foundation), 1965-1973 |
| 2 | 19 | | McGlone, Frank B., 1977-1986 |
| 2 | 20 | | Medenica, Rajko D., 1984 |
| 2 | 21 | | Menninger, Karl, 1956-1965 |
| 3 | 1 | | Papper, E.M., 1961-1970 |
| 3 | 2 | | Popov, Ivan M. (Renaissance Center, Bahamas), 1970-1973 |
| 3 | 3 | | Reiff, Theodore R. , 1969-1972 |
| 3 | 4 | | Reiff, Theodore R., 1975-1972 |
| 3 | 5 | | Sanders, Murray, 1950-1968 |
| 3 | 6 | | Sander, Paul W., 1962-1968 |
| 3 | 7 | | Scribner, Belding H., 1965-1977 |
| 3 | 8 | | Selye, Hans, 1964-1975 |
| 3 | 9 | | Stare, Frederick J., 1961 |
| 3 | 10 | | Talbott, G. Douglas (Cox Coronary Heart Institute), 1955-1965 |
| 3 | 11 | | Tancredi, Laurence R., 1971-1981 |
| 3 | 12 | | Thiersch, John B., 1958-1968 |
| 3 | 13 | | Vickery, Donald M., 1976-1981 |
| 3 | 14 | | Watterson, Robert Pl, 1958-1961 |
| 3 | 15 | | Welch, Charles A., 1970-1984 |
| 3 | 16 | | West, Louis Jolyon, 1965-1968 |
| 3 | 17 | | Williams, Robert H., 1966-1969 |
| 3 | 18 | | Wolf, Stewart, 1968-1970 |
| 3 | 19 | | Wood, Francis C., 1953-1955 |
| | | Miscellaneous correspondence with physicians |
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| 4 | 1 | | | A, 1960-1981 |
| 4 | 2 | | | B, 1966-1981 |
| 4 | 3 | | | C, 1960-1984 |
| 4 | 4 | | | D, 1963-1980 |
| 4 | 5 | | | E-F, 1954-1986 |
| 4 | 6 | | | G, 1964-1986 |
| 4 | 7 | | | H, 1965-1978 |
| 4 | 8 | | | I-K, 1961-1985 |
| 4 | 9 | | | L, 1964-1977 |
| 4 | 10 | | | M-O, 1961-1985 |
| 4 | 11 | | | P-Q, 1964-1977 |
| 4 | 12 | | | R, 1950-1981 |
| 4 | 13 | | | S-T, 1964-1988 |
| 4 | 14 | | | U-Z, 1956-1982 |
| | General correspondence, 1935-1988 |
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| 4 | 15 | | American Heart Association, 1954 |
| 4 | 16 | | Arden, Elizabeth (Maine Chance spa), [195?] |
| 4 | 17 | | Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1972 |
| 4 | 18 | | Association of American Medical Colleges, 1975-1985 |
| 4 | 19 | | Baggs, William C, 1963-1965 |
| 4 | 20 | | Blair, William McCormick, Jr. and Deeda (Catherine), 1961-1964 |
| 4 | 21 | | | Wedding photographs, 1961 |
| 4 | 22 | | Boston University School of Medicine, 1970-1987 |
| 4 | 23 | | Bowles, Sam and Nancy, 1960-1961 |
| 4 | 24 | | Burch, Lucius, 1965-1967 |
| 4 | 25 | | Caldwell, Millard F., 1948-1955; 1962; 1975-1976 |
| 4 | 26 | | City Tavern Association, n.d. |
| 4 | 27 | | Clifford, Marny (Margaret), 1959; 1970; 1973 |
| 5 | 1 | | Davies, Ralph K., 1955-1971 |
| 5 | 2 | | Digestive Disease Foundation/American Digestive Disease Society,, 1971-1974 |
| 5 | 3 | | Doran, Francis Brien, 1964-1974 |
| 5 | 4 | | Ewald, William (ACCESS), n.d.; 1970 |
| 5 | 5 | | Farber, Norma, 1965 |
| 5 | 6 | | Food for Peace Council, 1962-1963 |
| 5 | 7 | | Gaines, Andrew , 1977 |
| 5 | 8 | | Garcia, Kenneth, 1973-1976 |
| 5 | 9 | | Gerontological Society, 1966-1976 |
| | | | see also Sinex, F. Marott |
| 5 | 10 | | Glenn, Paul F. (Glenn Foundation for Medical Research), 1965-1968 |
| 5 | 11 | | Glenn, Paul F. (Glenn Foundation for Medical Research), 1969-1984 |
| 5 | 12 | | Gorman, Mike, 195?-1960 |
| 5 | 13 | | Gorman, Mike, 1961-1964; 1983 |
| 5 | 14 | | Hanger, William Arnold, n.d; 1941-1956; 1968-1972; 1978; 1985 |
| 5 | 15 | | Harriman, W. Averell, 1947; 1952-1955; 1971 |
| 5 | 16 | | Haskins, Cheryl P., 1971 |
| | | Health, Education and Welfare, Department of, 1948-1956 |
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| 5 | 17 | | | General, n.d.; 1955 |
| 5 | 18 | | | Appropriations (Killion, George), 1948-1956 |
| 5 | 19 | | Herman, William R., 1970-1973 |
| 5 | 20 | | Hill, Lister, 1960-1973 |
| 5 | 22 | | Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), 1971-1976 |
| 5 | 23 | | International Eye Foundation (King, John Harry), 1964-1972; 1978; 1985 |
| 5 | 24 | | Jacobs, Andrew, Jr., 1969-1973; 1975 |
| 6 | 1 | | Jacobson, Edward, 1969-1973 |
| 6 | 2 | | James F. Mitchell Foundation, 1966-1973 |
| 6 | 3 | | Jha, Mekhala, 1973 |
| 6 | 4 | | Johnson, Lyondon B. and Lady Bird (Claudia), 1955-1976 |
| 6 | 5 | | Johnson, Philip, 1965 |
| 6 | 6 | | Jones, Boisfeuillet, n.d.; 1961-1984 |
| 6 | 7 | | Kaiser, Edgar F., Jr., 1969;1971; 1974 |
| 6 | 8 | | Kaiser, Edgar F., Sr., 1966-1974 |
| 6 | 9 | | Lasker, Mary, 1951-1955; 1962; 1967; 1977 |
| 6 | 10 | | Le Maire, Eleanor, 1954-1976 |
| 6 | 11 | | Leopold and Liliane (King and Princess of Belgium), 1962-1964 |
| 6 | 12 | | Lexington [MA], Town of, Forums on Aging (Page, William), 1978-1979 |
| 6 | 13 | | Linus Pauling Institute (Robinson, Arthur B.), 1976 |
| 6 | 14 | | Luce, Gay G. (Senior Actualization and Growth Explorations0, 1975 |
| 6 | 15 | | Macy, John W., 1965; 1972 |
| 6 | 16 | | May, Ben, 1970-1971 |
| 6 | 17 | | McGovern, George, 1962; 1963; 1965; 1972; 1976 |
| 6 | 18 | | McMicking, Joseph R., 1965-1970 |
| 6 | 19 | | Monell Chemical Senses Center (University of Pennsylvania), 1975-1976; 1982; 1984-1985 |
| 6 | 20 | | Morton, John H., 1955-1957 |
| 6 | 21 | | Muskie, Edmund S., 1969; 1972 |
| 6 | 22 | | Nakayama, Hirokazu (Yamato Bros.), 1955-1960 |
| 6 | 23 | | National Advisory Child Health and Development Council, 1962-1965 |
| 6 | 24 | | National Institutes of Health, 1988 |
| 6 | 25 | | National Library of Medicine: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (Dimond, E. Gray), 1969 |
| 6 | 26 | | National Stroke Association, 1984-1988 |
| 6 | 27 | | Neuberger, Richard L. and Maurine B., 1957-1965 |
| 6 | 28 | | Pirie, Robert P., 1960-1961 |
| 6 | 29 | | Platzer, Jessie, 1958-1960 |
| 6 | 30 | | Potomac Marching Society, 1964-1974 |
| 6 | 31 | | President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke, 1964-1965 |
| 6 | 32 | | President's Commission on Mental Health, 1977-1978 |
| 6 | 33 | | Pryor, David, 1970-1971 |
| 6 | 34 | | Revolutionary Battle Park, Inc. [Savannah, GA] (Roberts, Adrienne G.), 1965-1967 |
| 7 | 1 | | Sanger, Margaret, 1949-1960; 1965 |
| 7 | 2 | | Sinex, F. Marott (Gerontological Society), 1965-1973 |
| | | | see also Gerontological Society |
| 7 | 3 | | Sinex, F. Marott (Gerontological Society), 1974-1985 |
| | | | see also Gerontological Society |
| 7 | 4 | | Skinner, Carlton, 1955-1958; 1961 |
| 7 | 5 | | Sobel, Harry, 1966-1972 |
| 7 | 6 | | Spectrum Technology Service, 1978 |
| 7 | 7 | | Stevenson, Adlai E., 152-1965; 1967 |
| 7 | 8 | | Stevenson, Adlai E., 1965-1972 |
| 7 | 9 | | Strehler, Bernard L., 1943; 1965-1972 |
| 7 | 10 | | Strickland, Stephen P., 1960-1961; 1966-1973 |
| 7 | 11 | | Student American Medical Association (SAMA), 1972 |
| 7 | 12 | | Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1950-1954 |
| 7 | 13 | | Triantis, Mary, 1965 |
| 7 | 14 | | Valenti, Jack, 1967; 1970 |
| 7 | 15 | | Veteran's Administration, 1962-1969 |
| 7 | 16 | | Vickery, Raymond E. (Center for Consumer Education, Inc.), 1976 |
| 7 | 17 | | de Villeyre, Jean, 1967-1970 |
| 7 | 18 | | Ward, Barbara, 1959-1966; 1976 |
| 7 | 19 | | Woods, George D., n.d.; 1965-1972 |
| 7 | 20 | | Woods, Louise [diary of trip], 1964 |
| 7 | 21 | | World Health Organization, [not after 1971] |
| 7 | 22 | | Wylie, Philip, 1947-1971 |
| | Miscellaneous correspondence, 1935-1988 |
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| | | Congressional Correspondence, 1950-1988 |
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| 7 | 23 | | | A-D, 1955-1975 |
| 8 | 1 | | | E-K, 1957-1988 |
| 8 | 2 | | | L-R, 1958-1976 |
| 8 | 3 | | | S-Z, 1957-1975 |
| | | Miscellaneous correspondence, 1950-1988 |
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| 8 | 4 | | | A-D, 1950-1977 |
| 8 | 5 | | | E-K, 1950-1988 |
| 8 | 6 | | | L-R, 1958-1976 |
| 8 | 7 | | | S-Z, 1957-1962 |
| 8 | 8 | | Associations and organizations, 1966-1984 |
| 8 | 9 | | Unidentified correspondence, 1962-1974 |
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Subject Files, 1941-1988
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| 8 | 10 | American Medical Association, [1950?] |
| 8 | 11 | Arizona property (Moon Valley) (Cavanagh, Harry J.; Killion, George; Lasker, Mary; Metz, C. Davison "Dave"; Orlandi, Guido), 1960-1968 |
| 8 | 12 | Arizona property (Moon Valley) (Killion, George; lasker, Mary; Mahoney, William P.; Metz, C. Davison "Dave";
Orlandi, Guido), 1960-1968 |
| | Birth Control, 1941-1982 |
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| 8 | 13 | | General, 1941-1963 |
| 8 | 14 | | General, 1963-1982 |
| 9 | 1 | | Fact sheets, 1960-1965 |
| 9 | 2 | | "List of Events in the Population Field, 1952-1965", [1965?] |
| 9 | 3 | Congress, 1963-1964 |
| 9 | 4 | Cumberland Island [GA], 1965-1970 |
| 9 | 5 | Drugs, [not after 1972] |
| 9 | 6 | Hospices, 1975-1976 |
| 9 | 7 | Legislation, 1959 |
| 9 | 8 | Medical research, [not after 1955] |
| 9 | 9 | Miscellaneous, n.d; 1962; 1968 |
| | Parties, 1955-1970 |
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| 9 | 10 | | Correspondence, 1963 |
| 9 | 11 | | Guest lists, 1955-1970 |
| 9 | 12 | Personal, n.d.; 1955; 1960 |
| 9 | 13 | Resumes, n.d.; 1977 |
| 9 | 14 | Smoking, 1965 |
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Aging, 1948-1988
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| 9 | 15 | Adult Development and Aging Program, n.d. |
| 9 | 16 | Alzheimer's disease, 1977-1981 |
| 9 | 17 | American Aging Association, 1972-1987 |
| 9 | 18 | American Association of Retired People, 1972 |
| 9 | 19 | American Federation for Aging Research, 1982-1985 |
| 9 | 20 | Association for the Advancement of Aging Research (Hochschild, Richard), 1968-1972 |
| 9 | 21 | Bankers Life and Casualty Co. (conferences on aging), 1979-1980 |
| 9 | 22 | Conferences, 1980-1983 |
| 9 | 23 | Correspondence, 1960-1982 |
| 9 | 24 | Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, 1964-1975 |
| 9 | 25 | Foundation for Research in Aging, 1972 |
| 9 | 26 | Gerontology Research Center (Baltimore City Hospitals), 1966-1975 |
| 9 | 27 | International, 1972-1978 |
| 10 | 1 | Legislation, 1965-1981 |
| 10 | 2 | Miscellaneous, 1966-1985 |
| 10 | 3 | National Advisory Council on Aging, 1974-1982 |
| 10 | 4 | National Council on the Aging, 1974 |
| | National Institute on Aging, 1948-1985 |
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| 10 | 5 | | Butler, Robert N., 1976-1982 |
| 10 | 6 | | General , 1976-1979 |
| 10 | 7 | | Legislation, 1948; 1962; 1970-1980 |
| 10 | 8 | | Planning, 1965-1979 |
| 10 | 9 | | Publications, 1978-1985 |
| 10 | 10 | National Institutes of Health, 1970-1985 |
| 10 | 11 | National Research Foundation on Aging, 1974-1975 |
| 10 | 12 | Notes, n.d. |
| 10 | 13 | Public Health Service Science Writer Seminar on Research Progress and Trends in Aging, 1965 |
| 10a | 1 | Research, 1971-1979 |
| 10a | 2 | United Nations, 1969-1975 |
| 10a | 3 | University of Southern California (Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center), 1974-1975 |
| | | see also Birren, James E. |
| 10a | 4 | Veterans' Administration (Meyer, Joe and Cherkin, Arthur), 1959-1972 |
| 10a | 5 | Veterans' Administration (Meyer, Joe and Cherkin, Arthur), 1973-1984 |
| 10a | 6 | White, George T., 1971-1972 |
| 10a | 7 | White House Conference on aging, 1965; 1980-1981 |
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Separated Material
| Numerous clippings and reprints found in the collection were discarded. Among them were many typescripts and clippings of society columnist Mary Marley's "About People" column, dating from 1949 to 1956, and published items relating to medical, particularly gerontological, research. |
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