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virologists in the United States have been invited and leaders like Hilleman of Merck, who's a great maker of vaccines for Merck, and other heads of commercial laboratories who have an interest in viruses, have been invited too. Dr. Gutterman. Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Fordyce and Mr. Jimmy Fordyce and I hope to inspire them to work fast and get the virus put together fast.

Now, you were the one who inspired the Cancer Society to call this conference, weren't you?

Yes, I certainly urged them to do it. I urged them to get it going faster than they did, but it's pretty good to get them going in six weeks.

It certainly is, judging from what I recall of their past record, especially with interferon. It took you quite a long time.

Yes, especially with interferon. Well, at any rate we'll know much more about it in a few months, and maybe it will take a year. However, it's a whole new world. Now, if you can get a successful vaccine like what you have with polio, you just don't see the need anymore, and that's the most to be hoped for thing we could ever have, because nobody wants to have an operation; nobody wants to find they have cancer in any form or take any chemotherapy if they don't have to, as you well know.