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Blood, just as it comes from a donor's vein, is worth more than fine old cognac; but unlike brandy, blood is harmed by aging. Faced with the necessity of throwing this costly liquid away after its effective life of 21 days has passed, a crooked dealer may break the rules and sell it anyway. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged that a firm called Westchester Blood Service, Inc. had changed the dates on bottles of expired blood and then sold them to hospitals. It was the first such indictment ever...
...organization of the blood-banking business traces back to the days right after World War II when the American Red Cross was regearing its blood-donor program for peacetime. When it got rolling again, it had to compete with the American Association of Blood Banks, set up in 1947, mainly by community groups for private nonprofit hospitals. The two waged sanguinary warfare for a decade. Not until last year did they put into effect a sense-making national clearinghouse system, so that a patient who gets a transfusion in any of about 5,500 hospitals can receive credit for blood...
Through its 55 regional donor centers, the Red Cross now drains off 2,500,000 pints of blood a year, or 45% of the national consumption. The Red Cross pays donors nothing and does not sell its blood; the only charges it permits are for processing ($3 to $8 a pint) and for actual transfusion by the hospital ($10 to $15 a pint...
...father's Kensett State Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll his own Bull Durham cigarettes, and to chaw tobacco without turning green (at least until he got out of the sight of the donor). He had another campaign asset in the comely person of his wife Clarine ("Polly"), whom he still describes as "the best handshaker a man ever married." Mills won easily, and by 1952 had become such a personage that Kensett's citizens proudly put up a sign at the town...
Pushing ahead with his campaign to humanize Britain's dismal prisons, Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler announced his newest device for rehabilitating gaolbirds: a $280 prize for the best original literary, artistic or musical composition produced behind bars. Unmentioned, at his own request, was the instigator and donor of the award: Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler, 56. whose Dialogue with Death and Scum of the Earth grew out of his own imprisonment by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War and by Vichy France during World...