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...John Rock '14, a clinical professor of gynecology at the Medical School, will be awarded the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Award of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American in ceremonies at New York Tuesday, the Federation announced last night...
...Lasker Awards in public health were set up only last year by former Chicago Adman Albert D. Lasker and his wife Mary. Already they are regarded as a top honor in U.S. medicine. Awarded annually by the American Public Health Association, the prizes are intended to stimulate efforts for mass lifesaving. They are given to medical scientists or administrators who have contributed most toward fighting the major fatal diseases. Individual winners get $1,000 and a gold statuette of the Winged Victory-a kind of medical Oscar...
Married. Jane Greer, 22, cinemactress; and Edward Lasker, 35, son of Millionaire Adman (Lord & Thomas) Albert Lasker; she for the second time (her first: oldtime Crooner Rudy Vallee), he for the second; in Las Vegas...
...pails, sold them to grocers at cost, then staged a spring-housecleaning sale in which the pails, filled with scrub brushes, clothespins and Colgate soap, were retailed as a "package" for 89?. Results were so spectacular that they caught the eye of Chicago's famed advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker (Lord & Thomas), who owned the Pepsodent Co., and a gloomy balance sheet. From a distance, Luckman looked like the man to fix this. Closeup, he looked entirely too young. Calmly Luckman lied to Lasker about his age: he said he was 30, instead of 26. Lasker hired him as salesmanager...
Robert Morris Lasker...