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Miss Barbara Yuncker Wins Lasker Medical Journalism Award
Canaan New York Miss Barbara Yuncker of Tunnel Hill and New York City wins the 26th annual Albert Lasker medical journalism award in the newspaper field She is the only newspaper reporter to win the prize twice for The Pit in 1967 and The Human Brain in 1968 The award includes 2500 dollars an engraved citation and a winged victory statue She will receive the honor at a New York luncheon Yuncker has written extensively on medicine and science for the New York Post since 1959 and has contributed to Good Housekeeping and other national magazines Born in Greencastle Indiana she studied at DePauw University prior to journalism
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Canaan
N.Y
Barbara Yuncker
Tunnel Hill
New York City
Albert Lasker
New York Post
Yuncker
Samothrace
Miss Yuneker
New York
Greencastle
Ind
Truman G. Yuncker
DePauw University
Ethel Claflin Yuncker
DePauw
Miss Yuncker
The
Wall Street Journal
Lasker
Front Page
New York Newspaperwomen's Club
Newspaper Guild Page 1
Adolf Meyer
New York State