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- ↑ "KOBER PRIZE GIVEN TO DR. RUFUS COLE; American Physicians' Group Honors Head of Rockefeller Institute Hospital TUBERCULOSIS GAIN CITED 50% of White Population Now Reach Adulthood Without Infection, Soper Reports" (fee or subscription required). The New York Times. May 5, 1938. p. 21.
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