Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committees were polishing up the citations for next month's announcement of the 1948 winners. Nobody was telling, yet, who had won-and medical men were busily speculating. One who knows for sure who the winners will be is Mrs. Mary Lasker, vice president and dynamo behind the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Mrs. Lasker puts up the cash, but the winners are picked by three organizations: the American Public Health Association, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the Planned Parenthood Federation...
Last week on Pitcairn, the man who answered the ad-blond, 40-year-old Albert Wadkins Moverley-was pitching in with the work on the new schoolhouse. Teacher Moverley will have a few modern gadgets to help him with his 25 charges that John Adams would never have thought possible on Pitcairn. Among them: electricity, radios, and a 16-mm. movie projector...
Parable. This is the story of Albert Camus' The Plague, written in a muted, undramatic style, quite in the way a sensitive but unliterary doctor might set down his recollections. When first published in Paris in 1947, it created a sensation; it was immediately understood as a parable of the French underground (Camus was editor of Combat, a leading French underground paper...
WESTWARD HA! (159 pp.)-S. J. Perelman & Albert Hirschfeld-Simon & Schuster...
Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...