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Lasker:

The Heart Institute was so unaware of what they were doing that they didn't keep after them, and the agency itself got busy with other things, and I'm not sure -- I haven't seen anything in a newspaper or a magazine. They were supposed to offer all that to newspapers and magazines, and of course that takes a lot of selling, and I didn't see anything appear -- did you?

Q:

I have seen a lot of these one-minute things on television clustered around newscasts -- I mean before a newscast or right after a newscast.

Lasker:

On prime time?

Q:

Not necessarily.

Lasker:

When do you lock at newscasts?

Usually 11 o'clock or 6:30, and I've seen all sorts of little snips on health problems: some of them I think sponsored by the Heart Association and some by Cancer, some I think by the Red Cross, some on the evils of smoking and what it may cause. And collectively this makes one very aware. . .

Lasker:

You mean shown in a group?





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