People: Dec. 2, 1985

The past few weeks have been especially good ones for Eppie Lederer, 67. First she celebrated 30 years of dispensing advice on money, love and marriage to 85 million readers each day as Ann Landers. "I cannot imagine a job that could have provided me with more satisfaction or a better opportunity to touch the lives of so many people," she wrote on the anniversary. Then last week the columnist was named (along with two Nobel prizewinners) among five recipients of the 1985 Albert Lasker medical research and public service awards. Mary Lasker, 84, who with her late husband Albert established...

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