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Named last week to receive one of the 1957 Albert Lasker Awards of the American Public Health Association was a doctor who has handed out more money for more medical research than any other man in the world-a total far greater than all the Rockefeller grants in this field. The doctor: Cassius James Van Slyke, 56, who has never practiced for any patient other than Uncle...
...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...
Died. Dr. John Friend Mahoney. 67, longtime (1929-49) U.S. Public Health Service careerman, who developed the penicillin cure for venereal diseases early in World War II. won the American Public Health Association's Lasker Award for the work in 1946, in 1949 announced the complete success of his method, six years after he first used it to treat patients; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City...
...years with the foundation, Dr. Gregg refused all honorary degrees and awards lest acceptance embarrass him in dealing with donors. Last week Medical Statesman Gregg, 66 and now retired, accepted his first, well-earned award. In Atlantic City he received a special Albert Lasker Award of the American Public...
...Other Lasker awards ($2,000) went...