“Hobnobbing with the Psychologists”
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by Liz Greene
Oct 10, 2023
4 minutes
y January 1938, Jane Stafford had become the in the United States, regularly covering advances in cancer research and treatment. While thanking an American Society for Control of Cancer (ASCC) official for sharing positive reactions to her recent newspaper series, she inquired about a press dinner to which she had been invited a few months earlier. The event had already taken place, the publicity director admitted, and at the Harvard Club, where women were not allowed. To have held it elsewhere “would have added a considerable amount to our budget,” and “according to writers and physicians—to have had a woman present would have considerably changed the character of
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