Caption reads: NEW YORK, N.Y. NOV. 14, 1974--Dr. Michael E. DeBakey (second from left), president and chief executive officer of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, is shown with some of the recipients of awards in the 29th annual Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation presentations. Others, left to right, are Dr. Howard M. Temin, American Cancer Society Research Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mrs. Albert Lasker, president of the foundation; Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee, H.E.W.; Dr. Howard E. Skipper, director of the Ketterin-Meyer [sic] Laboratory and president of the Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama; Dr. Ludwik Gross, senior medical investigator and chief of cancer research unit at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Bronx, N.Y.; Dr. Sol Spiegelman, director of the Institute of Cancer Research, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.; Mrs. Alice Fordyce, vice president of the Foundation, and Benno Schmidt, Chairman of the President's Cancer Panel. Skipper, Gross and Spiegelman were recipients of Lasker awards.
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