Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was the magazine's "Revolt of the Masses" number roundly attacking the House Plan. The attack was so strong that Lampy's graduate trustees threatened to resign unless the editors personally apologized to Edward S. Harkness, donor of the Houses. But President Alan R. Blackburn, speaking for the Bow St. aviary, made it clear he planned no retraction...
While making the investment decisions and voting the shares, Cabot rarely sees a security. "We only see them," he says, "when a man comes in to give some." Even then, the donor is hustled over to the New England Trust Co.--perhaps by subway or taxi depending upon the size of the gift...
...happened that your offices in New York had been swept away by some fervid desire to drain the lifeblood from local citizens and had established a blood-donor center on the main floor. Unwittingly, I entered the building and presented myself at what seemed to be a reception desk. The lady behind the desk was overjoyed to see me, and I thought that the public-relations staff of the magazine had been particularly diligent in its indoctrination. I was asked my name, my habitat, some personal history and my blood type. This again was ascribed by me to be part...
...Clarence Walton Lillehei. Not until six weeks ago did the Minneapolis doctors, finally satisfied that they had taken every precaution possible against its many dangers, feel ready to try it. Their first patient was Gregory Glidden, 13 months, who had an opening between the ventricles of his heart. The donor's blood had to match the baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable. As the infant lay on one operating table, his father was on another parallel to it. A surgeon tapped the main artery in the father's thigh...
While making the investment decisions and voting the shares, Cabot rarely sees a security. "We only see them," he says, "when a man comes in to give some." Even then, the donor is hustled over to the New England Trust Co.--perhaps by subway or taxi depending upon the size of the gift...