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Slow Worker. Little known in lay circles, Sutherland has for years been a recognized leader among his colleagues. They believe that his findings are basic to any understanding of body chemistry. Last year his experiments brought him the Lasker Award, the 22nd time since 1946 that this distinction has presaged a Nobel. Though he became interested in hormone studies 25 years ago, Sutherland considers almost everything he did before 1960 merely preparation for his recent research, which established the importance of his earlier findings. "I guess I'm just a slow worker," he says...
...bill calling for identification of product contents during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that the Wagner-Hatfield proposal, which called for guaranteed educational control of 25 per cent of the radio spectrum, received little support when it came up before the Roosevelt-formed Federal Communications Commission...
...Idea. The idea that the best prescription for cancer is financial is an old one. Mary Lasker, the longtime medical philanthropist, has strenuously urged the nation to commit more of its resources to the search for a cancer cure. She has argued that the National Cancer Institute, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation...
...brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
...reaction was predictable. New York Stock Exchange Chairman Bernard J. Lasker stuffily protested, "on behalf of more than 31 million share-owners who own stock in America's publicly owned corporations," that the only similarity/ between buying stock and betting on the nags is that "both involve a decision on the use of disposable personal income." Samuels teasingly replied: "On behalf of the 48,972 horses that raced in this country in 1970, I am sure that some of the horses feel they have been a better investment in the past few years than some of the investments...