Lasker awards presentation

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · April 29, 1953

Miss Cathy Covert (second from right) of the Syracuse, New York, Herald-Journal and John Lear (right) of Collier's Magazine are shown receiving the silver-winged statuettes presented to them as winners of the 1952 Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Awards for outstanding reporting on medical research and public health in the newspaper and magazine fields, respectively. Dr. Irving S. Wright, professor of clinical medical at Cornell University Medical College (left) is presenting Miss Covert's statuette to her as Lear, holding his, and Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation is shown second from left.