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...sort of night that society columnists dream of. On the seafront terrace of a colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht...
Eight servants were in the house at the time of Mrs. Lasker's dinner; yet no one saw the front door open, heard footsteps in the bedrooms upstairs, had the slightest idea that jewels worth $120,000-and Van der Kemp's key to his apartment in the Versailles Palace-were being stolen. In the Villa Mayou. the Troubetzkoys' cook, maitre d'hōtel and two royal poodles watched a Belgian bicycle race on the television set in the servants' quarters; they were unaware of the agile figure who scaled the Villa...
...George Washington, James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. While rummaging through a London antique shop, a committee member found some period wallpaper decorated with Revolutionary War scenes; it will be used to paper Jackie's private dining room. Mrs. Albert Lasker gave the committee a marble bust of George Washington, and a jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany library table and an anonymous source lent a Samuel...
...come up with answers. Eleven years ago. when Burnet began to concentrate on the immunological intolerance of the human body -rejection by one body of invading material from another-he already was an authority on influenza, leukemia and viruses. His efforts in these fields won him a U.S. Lasker Award, appointment by Queen Elizabeth to Britain's Order of Merit,* and a reputation so high, says one colleague, that "no discussion about any of the virus diseases known to man can be complete without mentioning his name." Last week in Stockholm, Burnet's work in immunology earned...
Last week was prize week in the U.S. also. In New York the American Public Health Association and the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced winners of their 1960 Joint Awards in medical research. The recipients (who each received $2,500 and a Winged Victory statuette) included two scientists who are not medical researchers at all: German Engineer Ernst Ruska and U.S. Research Physicist James Hillier, who together are largely responsible for development of the electron microscope. Up to 500 times as powerful as the best optical microscope, the electron microscope has already given man his first look at viruses...