Up the Rungs of the Ladder
FROM RAILWAY PORTER TO CANCER RESEARCH DIRECTOR LONDON", May 24. Dr. William Ewart Gye, who 32 years ago was a railway porter, lias been appointed Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, one of the world's most outstanding pathological posts. A surprise legacy enabled him to leave his humble occupation and attend a secondary school. Later he became a science teacher and saved enough to study medicine at Edinburgh University, when he lived on ten shillings a week. His mother's death led him to embark on the study of cancer. MRS. Til/ISDN CHANGE 3 WITHOUT ALTERING. No, we don't stick to the one thing —Nobody wants bacon and eggs every morning for breakfast, and not everybody wants oatmeal every day. There's five of us, and what I do to please us all is always to have the three best breakfast cereals I can get, and make j. change now and again. That's how mine like it, so long as it's either Red Diamond Rolled Oats, Red Diamond O-tis, or Red Diamond Oatlets, —and Red Diamond can't be beat, it can't. '
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1935, Page 6
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