Word: lasker
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DIED. Gilbert Cant, 72, esteemed Lasker Award-winning medicine editor of TIME from 1949 to 1969, author of Male Trouble (1976), on prostate problems, and three books on the Navy in World War II; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...judgment was premature. In the twilight of her career, McClintock is suddenly being hailed as a scientific prophet. This year she has received eight awards, the richest and most prestigious just last week: a $60,000-a-year, taxfree, lifetime grant from Chicago's MacArthur Foundation and the Lasker prize for basic research, worth $15,000 and often a steppingstone to a Nobel Prize...
DIED. Edward Lasker, 95, German-born chess champion who won the United States Open title five times between 1916 and 1921, and who wrote several chess books, including the classic Modern Chess Strategy; in New York City...
Wilson, whose efforts on behalf of the blind were recognized last year when he won the prestigious Albert Lasker Special Public Service Award, has a powerful ally for his crusade. The World Health Organization has launched a drive to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2000. In the meantime, Wilson plans to continue, as the title of his autobiography puts it, Travelling Blind, to give others the gift of sight...