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...when the officials of the American Tobacco Co. panicked in the midst of a minor crisis, the president of the Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency rose from his hospital bed in Baltimore and journeyed to New York to attend an emergency meeting. After he straightened things out, Albert Davis Lasker turned to the other conferees and announced: "Gentlemen, I have done all I can for you. Good day, because I must return to Johns Hopkins now and continue my nervous breakdown...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...
Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Children's Surgery at the Medical School, will receive the 1959 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for distinguished achievement in the field of cardio-vascular research" in Philadelphia Sunday...
...first time, two special ($5,000) Lasker awards went to members of Congress for championing increased appropriations for medical research: Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and Rhode Island's Congressman John E. Fogarty...
...Other Lasker winners in public health and medical research...