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...closer than any man before him to explaining how the front half of the human pituitary, the body's master gland, controls so many functions through the hormones it manufactures. Because his success represents a singular medical triumph, Dr. Li last week was awarded the $10,000 Albert Lasker Basic Research Award...
...From 1946 through 1960, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, in cooperation with the American Pulbic Health Association, annually gave several awards of up to $5,000 each...
...Chevrolet's market planning; it was he who named the Chevy II. Bent on an advertising career ever since his teen-age days in Los Angeles, Little bypassed college to go to work as a copy boy for Lord & Thomas, and learned the advertising craft from Albert Lasker. Signed up by Campbell-Ewald during World War II, he has headed the agency for the past decade, increased its billings 350% to last year's $87 million. He leans to simple ads with somewhat corny slogans ("Swissair Swisscare"), and his personal tastes are plain. He likes to chase fire...
Died. Dr. Conrad Arnold Elvehjem, 61, president for six years of the University of Wisconsin and biochemist whose identification of nicotinic acid as a new vitamin (now called niacin) led directly to the cure of pellagra, and who won medicine's Lasker Award in 1952; of a heart attack; in Madison...
...were pleased to learn that Gilbert Cant, TIME'S Medicine editor since 1949, has been awarded $2,500 and a gold statuette as winner of the 1961 Albert Lasker Medical Journalism award for outstanding medical reporting in magazines. Cant's cover story on Virologist John Enders (TIME, Nov. 17) was cited for "presenting an exciting and informative view of the world of viruses" that "has set a high standard deserving of emulation." Nobel Prizewinner Enders himself, in a letter to Cant, called the piece "an excellent statement in a short compass of the present state of virology. Comments...