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...president-elect of the American Cancer Society; last year he received the prestigious Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award. Farber has been professor of Pathology for 20 years and has been on the Medical School Faculty since 1929. The Wolbach professorsrip is in honor of the former pathologist-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1917 until...
Besides bringing winners $10,000 in cash and more prestige than any other U.S. medical citation, the Albert Lasker awards have proved to be a reliable lens for focusing international recognition. In the 21 years since Millionaire Adman Lasker founded the annual prize, no fewer than 17 recipients have gone on to receive Nobel awards. The Lasker laurels also honor practical achievement, as well as theoretical research. Of the 1967 winners announced last week in Manhattan, for example, one has virtually eliminated the threat of a killing disease in several Asian nations in the past dozen years; the other...
...show, they are worn on the wrist with wide vinyl bands in vivid electric colors, dangle from necklaces or belts, even come as adjustable rings to be worn on the finger. Nor is their appeal only to the young. Rose Kennedy, Carol Channing, Oveta Gulp Hobby and Mary Lasker all sport them. Lord Snowdon owns several, including a big black one to harmonize with his evening clothes. The Beatles' Ringo Starr threads his on a velvet ribbon and drapes it around his neck...
...LONG CHILDHOOD OF TIMMY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An updated version of last year's excellent documentary, winner of the Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Award, about a mentally retarded ten-year-old and the sacrifices of his family...
Peripatetic President. When Lasker retired and sold off Lord & Thomas to his employees, Foote led the reorganization of the company into today's Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. He stayed on for eight years, then in 1951 shifted over to bigger McCann-Erickson, Inc. as a vice president. Even in a peripatetic business, Foote moved around more than most. He left McCann not once but twice, the first time over "policy differences," the second because of what he describes as a crisis of conscience. A reformed chain smoker who worried increasingly about cancer, Foote finally decided not to work...