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...five-year-old Lasker Awards are among the world's top medical honors. As prizes go, their value is small: the biggest single prize, given with a gold reproduction of Winged Victory,'is $2,500. Lasker Awards impress scientists because they are "working prizes." They usually skip the obvious, heavily laureled choices and reward men or groups who have done jobs that the public doesn't know much about...
Last week the award committees were polishing up the citations for next month's announcement of the 1948 winners. Nobody was telling, yet, who had won-and medical men were busily speculating. One who knows for sure who the winners will be is Mrs. Mary Lasker, vice president and dynamo behind the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Mrs. Lasker puts up the cash, but the winners are picked by three organizations: the American Public Health Association, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the Planned Parenthood Federation...
...Lasker, a chic 48, got interested many years ago in the things that kill and disable people. An old friend once asked for a $500 loan to send her mother to a hospital for treatment of cancer. Mrs. Lasker gave her the money, but it was too late. When the money had to be used for the mother's funeral, "that...
...research into the causes & cures of sterility, the P.P.F. gave one of two* Lasker Foundation awards to urbane, white-haired Dr. John Rock-the first Roman Catholic doctor to be so honored. Dr. Rock, 57, has studied the problems of fertility for 20 years. The first to demonstrate that human sperm can fertilize a human egg in the laboratory (TIME, Aug. 14, 1944), he is director of the Fertility and Endocrine Clinic at the Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Mass...
...Also given the Lasker Award, $500 and a gold medallion: Manhattan's Dr. Richard N. Pierson (a Presbyterian and father of four), for organizing, in 1930, the medical committee of the old Birth Control League, other activities...