From the Washington Post obituary of Robert W. Miller, NCI cancer researcher:

Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., a colleague at the National Cancer Institute, said Dr. Miller was known for his sense of humor, his storytelling and his clear, concise writing style.

When interviewing researchers for positions in Japan, Dr. Miller wrote in his essay, he found a question that would predict whether an interviewee would adapt to Japanese life: "Do you like the New Yorker magazine?" Those who did, he concluded, were good prospects.

In the late 1950s, Dr. Miller published a short "Talk of the Town" article in the New Yorker about a woman donating her body to science. He was paid $25.