The Hebrew University was today presented with a check for $200,000 by American composer Richard Rodgers on behalf of an American committee set up to finance a wing in the university’s department of experimental medicine and cancer research. The wing is to be named after Mr. Rodgers and the late Oscar Hammer stein, II.
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