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that maybe we'd delay that, and I'd also talk about Dr. Edmund Klein and his ointmant for skin cancer and the possibilities of the discoveries he's made that have some promise.

Q:

You mentioned it once in October, when I was here -- Dr. Klein came in.

Lasker:

Yes. well, I want to talk about it in one session. Now, this is what I have to read, here, this.

Q:

There's one other little item that I'd like you to comment on, if you will, if you have a moment, and that was the -- this is a little accolade that goes along with all the hard work, that is, on January 18 Mrs. Lasker gets an award for “beautifying the city,” an award given at the annual meeting of the Horticultural Society of New York. Would you say something about that?

Lasker:

Oh, yes. Well, that's an organization that's full of people that love flowers and haven't heretofore thought in terms of doing anything on a city-wide or on a non-personal basis, and as far as I know they have never given an aware to





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