Bliley Brown & Williamson
Confidential Communication From Industry Counsel to B&W in-House Counsel and in-House Counsel for Other Tobacco Companies, with Whom B&W Maintains A Common Legal Interest, Regarding Funding of Ctr Special Projects Research. This Document Also Contains B&W in-House Counsel's Handwritten Notation Reflecting Counsel's Mental Impressions Regarding the Same
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- Type
- LETTER
- Author
- Davison, M.S.
- Recipient
- Murray, J.
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Stevens, A.
- Witt, S.
- Ahrensfeld, T.
- Henson, A.
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Copied
- Brown, J.C.
- Sirridge, Patrick M. (Attorney, Shook, Hardy and Bacon)
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MAX H. CROHN. JR..'P. A**
" MICHA£L S. OAVIDSON
TIMOTHY M. FINNEGAN, P.C.
EDWIN J. JACOB, P. C.
~'JANET S. M¢CLENDON, R C.
• PETE~R J. McKENNA
CHESTER J. WROBLE.SKI, R C.
JOHN A. CIRALDO
ROBERT F. D, UBALDO
LAW OFFICES
JACOB, I~EDINGER & FINNEGAN
1270 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
ROCKEFELLER CENTER
NEW YORK, N.Y. I0112-1796
(212) 765-4100
5, 1985
Ahrensfeld
Murray
Henson
~epples
Stevens
Witt
CABLE ADORESS: KONIJAY
TELEX: 669292 KONIJAUW
TELECOPIER:(212)
NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE
SUITE 2111
WACHOVIA BUILDING
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 27101
(919) 725 - 757S
Re: Dr John G. Gruhn
:i~::;~ "; ........ : ~ Dr. Gruhn, an Associate Professog of Pathology at
~,.-~.--~~";~':~:',Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, is seeking financial
~?&~-:;~,~/~.,~r.~¢~q: ~support for the preparation of a monograph on the History of
~:~.'./~ ~'~',,i: ? ....
.~Z~,~@)i:?~.~ ~Lung Cancer. Dr. Gruhn zs a respected medxcal h~stor~an as
~~¢well as a pathologzst and has publzshed szmzlar works In the
~~::-past. Ne has most recently completed a history of breast
~~i. cancer that is being prepared for publication.
~~,,...,...., Dr. Gruhn proposes to revzew the hzstory of lung
~:~.cancer and trace the sources of what had come to be accepted
~~ knowledge. He will, in addltlon, detall how that knowledge
• changed, or dzd not change, as addztzonal znformatzon became
available.
....... "- " Dr. So.ers has r evlewed thls proposal and f lnds it ~0
)have sc~en~i~c me~. D~. G~uhn has =ev~e~ed ~he ~osenbZa~
• ~a~e=~Z Cn ~he CCR Z~bca~y and ~ha~ coZZec~on ol e~Zy
reports of lung cancer will be made available to him
Dr. Gruhn has requested financial support in the
, amount of $Z5,600 per year for the two years that he estimates
.:the project will take. Dr. So~ers estimates that the project
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will take three years to complete and I propose, accordingly,
~.~.n.,,
that the project be approved for three years in the amount of ....
, .....
$46,800. We will of course be reviewing the progress of the ........
:. i~.~;~/-
Sincerely,
Michael S. ~avison
Janet C. Brown, Esq.
Patrick Sirridge, Esq.
