Word: lasker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People in public health and research work generally do a plodding, worthwhile, unspectacular job that the public never hears about. To give deserved credit to outstanding workers in these fields, the American Public Health Association, since 1946, has presented the annual Lasker Awards ($500 to $2,500 in cash, plus a silver or gold statuette of the Winged Victory). This year's winners, announced this week...
...Miss Marion Sheahan, R.N. (the first nonphysician to win a Lasker Award), executive director of the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services...
...people who do good work in public health get little publicity and very few pats on the back. The annual Lasker Awards, among the top honors in world medicine, give them some of each. Individual winners also get $1,000 and a gold copy of the Winged Victory. The 1948 winners, announced this week...
...Lasker Foundation, formed in 1942, reflects the varied Lasker interests: fellowships for graduate students working with Sir Howard Florey, co-discoverer of penicillin (he picks the students); money for cancer research directed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins (his projects); research in hardening of the arteries, headed by Dr. Forrest Kendall at Manhattan's Goldwater Hospital...
...Lasker's house on Manhattan's stylish Beekman Place is decorated with paintings (by Dali, Picasso, Matisse) from her art-dealer days. But her real interest now is the foundation and the awards. Says she: "One human being on fire can do so much and nobody was paying much attention to the fire that came from these men." The awards, she thinks, may fan the fire...