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Midst laurels stood: Hyman Rickover, 64, awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" as the Navy's atomic top kick; Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill, 66, given the annual $1,000 Fiorina Lasker Civil Liberties Award for "cour age and integrity in defense of civil liberties"; NBC-TV Newsman David Brinkley, 43, presented with the 1964 Golden Key Award at a convention of the American Association of School Administrators for significant contribution to the national welfare...
Last week the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that its 1963 award of $10,000 for basic medical research will go to a man who is not a physician, but who has developed a technique for discovering those important differences. The man is the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Lyman Creighton Craig; the technique is called countercurrent distribution, or C.C.D...
Hormones & Cancer. For the Lasker clinical research award, the judges decided that the achievements of two men were of so nearly equal merit that even C.C.D. could not separate them. Checks for $5,000 each will...
...typhoid in the U.S. every year, and in most instances no latter-day Typhoid Mary (1870-1938) can be called to account. The culprit is usually grandma. The indictment was made last week by Dr. Joseph E. Smadel of the National Institutes of Health as he got the Lasker Award for clinical research. Typhoid...
awards, while the Lasker Foundation independently gives two of $10,000 each, one in basic medical and one in clinical research...