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...Lasker Wins Potter Prize...
...field of Comparative Literature, three Susan Anthony Potter Prizes were awarded. $100 was given to Morris E. Lasker '38, of New York City and Eliot House, for the best thesis on a subject in the field...
Died. Flora Warner Lasker, 56, wife of Chicago Adman Albert Davis Lasker, president of Lord & Thomas and onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Bill Benton's class of 1921 at Yale there was a nimble-witted youngster named Chester B. ("Chet") Bowles with whom he had only a nodding acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came...
That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to repeat the trick in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Some of his listeners began telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city...