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- <title>
- Mar. 07, 1994: Died:Mary Woodard Lasker
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Mar. 07, 1994 The Spy
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 25
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- <p> DIED. MARY WOODARD LASKER, 93, philanthropist; in Greenwich,
- Connecticut. For decades, Lasker was an influential contributor
- to cancer, heart disease, eye and arthritis research through
- the Lasker Foundation, established with her late husband. Lasker's
- relentless commitment to medical research earned her a Medal
- of Freedom in 1969. "I'd rather be more trouble than less,"
- Lasker once confessed. "I just don't go along with the belief
- that you can't cure things."
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- </body>
- </article>
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