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Screenplay by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes...
...adult development course meets in a two-hour lecture every Friday afternoon with a one-hour section during the week. Harry M. Lasker, lecturer on Education, faces the unusually large class--more than 70 students who scrawl down notes from his casually delivered lecture. The students frequently interrupt Lesser's presentation with questions and Lesser leaves time at the end of the two hours to field any other questions the students might have...
DIED. Nathan S. Kline, 66, combative psychiatrist who pioneered in the use of pharmaceuticals to treat mental illness and helped introduce tranquilizers and antidepressants, especially lithium, to enable the mentally ill to live outside hospitals; during heart surgery; in New York City. Kline won Lasker Awards in 1957 and 1964, but the second was successfully challenged by an associate who claimed credit for the achievement...
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...