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SSH:
Why was that?
KGS:
Bester’Stone didn't Iike him.
SSH:
Was that just a personal thing?
KGS:
I think it was kind of a personal thingsyand a political thing.
SSH:
Did Stone look upon Lawrence as a threat to his monopoly over
all forms of radtation?
KGs:
No, I don’t know if he felt that way, but Stone really owed
Ernest Lawrence a lot.
He made the 60 Seek cyclotron available
for the neutron therapy chat Boater Stone did.
There was
another man, who worked with Stone, by the name Ttarkin, who
was upset by all of this, because Larkin thought it was his
neutron therapy.
(GRYbocte? Stone's wealthy patients used
to roll up with their chauffeurs and their iced champagne,
ha the Laboratory they had a big field day that afternoon,
we all got s®acked on champagne and I thought it was
wonderful.
SSH:
What was the breakdown of labor?
You have John Larkin, who
was an M.D., and Robert Stone, and then John Lawrence was
involvedgrin the early dayaspin that neutron therapy.
were the three M.D.‘s doing?
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(Whatcan you expand on that?
Building on their own personal ambitions and regaining and
maintaining control over the program,