Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other sponsors: Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, Phil Murray...
...Victor's musical director, "I was solely responsible for virtually every Red Seal record made in America" from 1930 to 1944. He had "played ping-pong most of the night with Jascha Heifetz (a good player and a bad loser); jumped naked and shivering into Albert Spalding's icy pool at 7 a.m. . . . soothed the childish rages of Iturbi . . . softened and diverted the bovine stubbornness of Flagstad; ignored Pons's sulks and Moore's tantrums. . . ." This week, in a book called The Other Side of the Record (Knopf; $3.50), O'Connell unloaded "the accumulated irritations...
Camera-shy Albert Einstein was surrounded (from left to far left) by guests: grinning Editor Henry Agard Wallace, whose "courage and devotion" got Einstein's bravo; grinning Columnist Frank Kingdon, who got Wallace's endorsement for Senator from New Jersey; and grinning Singer Paul Robeson, who seconded Kingdon's nomination...
...Albert E. Hays Jr., 27, a startling nine-day wonder in 1939, turned out to be turning out all right, despite his unpromising start. As a college boy he had won national fame by swallowing 42 goldfish (washed down with chocolate soda); he then dropped out of sight. This week he was looking for a house in West Hartford, Conn, to settle down as boss of emergency messages for the American Radio Relay League (radio "hams"). Nobody held his past against him, and he never touched the stuff any more...
...Lasker Awards in public health were set up only last year by former Chicago Adman Albert D. Lasker and his wife Mary. Already they are regarded as a top honor in U.S. medicine. Awarded annually by the American Public Health Association, the prizes are intended to stimulate efforts for mass lifesaving. They are given to medical scientists or administrators who have contributed most toward fighting the major fatal diseases. Individual winners get $1,000 and a gold statuette of the Winged Victory-a kind of medical Oscar...