Word: lasker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Animal or Chemical? Last week, 48 years after his original preconception-shattering experiments, Peyton Rous stood before an audience in Manhattan to acknowledge a new honor in the string that has been lengthening since 1927: one of the Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory) of the American Public Health Association-one of medicine's brightest "Oscars...
Last month, after finishing Russia, Gunther plunged into a quick biography of Albert Lasker, one of the "small" books that "I play with my left hand" (others: Roosevelt in Retrospect, The Riddle of MacArthur). After the 1960 election, he intends to write his long-planned companion to Inside U.S.A., a book on U.S. politics. He will also edit Doubleday's ambitious Mainstream of Modern World History series. He is making notes for an autobiographical book on the people and events he has covered, and is pondering a biography of his longtime friend Sinclair Lewis. Next year he plans...
...when Gunther skipped such identification was in presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist Albert Lasker lengthily congratulated him in the innocent belief that he was the real-life hero of the newly opened Broadway musical, The King...
...painter Lasker selected as "the man I'll bet on" was Matisse; his collection has nine Matisse oils, and he hedged his hunch by buying eleven Picassos and four Braques. Endowed with a natural flair for color and design, Lasker was delighted to find that his eye automatically picked out the best of the lots shown him by dealers. He also discovered: "One not only has to pay the highest prices, but also a premium for the privilege of paying the highest prices...
...Lasker's last major purchase before his death in 1952 was one of his happiest: Vincent van Gogh's White Roses (opposite). Along with its companion piece on the same subject, owned by New York's Governor Averell Harriman, it is one of the most serene, glowing and untroubled canvases Van Gogh ever painted. It carries with it Van Gogh's sense of joyous (though temporary) release from an attack of madness that the painter described when he wrote to his brother from Saint-Rémy two months before his suicide: "That horrible attack...