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Cadavers Are Best. The ideal way to get around the rejection reaction is to find an organ donor with the same immunity pattern as the recipient. This happens with any certainty only in the case of identical twins. For patients not so fortunate as to have an identical twin, the conferees agreed, the best source for a donated kidney is a brother or sister, with the mother next. The one-year survival rate for kidneys from close relatives, reported Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, is now 70%. For the patients themselves...
...kidneys removed from cadavers, the corresponding survival figures are 55% and 65%. Astonishingly, the chances of a successful transplant from an unrelated living donor are less than half as good as those for kidneys from unrelated cadavers. Just why, no one knows; perhaps a dying man's kidney loses some of its power to trigger the rejection mechanism...
...gave these millions? Speculation is divided, but among those mentioned most frequently are Campbell Soup, the Duponts, Bernard Baruch, and, perhaps less seriously, the C.I.A. Whoever it was, gossip has it that Princeton's president Robert Goheen convinced the anonymous donor to throw all his loot into one pile rather than spread it around. There are those who contend "Firm X" is still watching closely over the Woodrow Wilson School's progress...
Sometimes the school is so unprepared for the unexpected gift that the donor almost gets away. In 1959, for example, Karl D. Umrath, a retired cash-register salesman, rang up the switchboard operator at St. Louis' Washington University one Saturday morning and told her that he wanted to give the university $1,000,000. Some-what dubious, the operator tried in vain to reach Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot, got no answers from several other officials. Umrath was just about to hang up when she finally connected him with the dean of the college of liberal arts. "I want...
...blueprints for the meanderings of the human mind, Sachs's collection was something not even to be possessed. He gave his private collection to the Fogg for study purposes. Labels never bore his name as lender or donor; the only identification they wore was that they were from "A Friend of the Fogg." Sachs, upon his death in 1965 at the age of 86, had given 2,690 works to the museum, a bequest by an individual to a teaching collection unequaled in its taste and scope...