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Some rules for getting maximum tax deductions from gifts: ¶ Capital assets that have gone up in value should be given directly. The donor thus pays no tax on the capital gain, and he can take an income-tax deduction for the full value of the gift. ¶ Capital assets that have dropped in value should be sold, and the cash given to charity. Thus the donor deducts both a capital loss and the value of the gift from his tax bill...
When the clouds gathered for World War II, Cohn was again sidetracked, as he saw it, from his protein work. The armed forces wanted to be assured of a supply of blood plasma, and the Navy thought Cohn should try to get it from beef blood because human donors would never suffice. Cohn found beef blood unpromising, and started a neighborhood donor service from which the Red Cross learned a lot. So the armed forces used human plasma...
Last week portable fractionators of thinking-machine complexity were being built to Cohn's specifications for taking blood direct from a donor's arm and fractionating it on the spot (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950). Cohn had just summed up his life's work and theories in a paper forbiddingly entitled "Evidence and Consequence of the Fine Structure of Protein." As he was about to circulate copies to the handful of other protein men who could understand it, Biochemist Cohn's blood pressure caught up with him. He had a cerebral hemorrhage and died, aged...
...United Daughters of the Confederacy to the Home-owned Grocers' Association to back them. Already they have received promises of bookmobiles from every sort of group from a truck drivers' local to the Honorable order of Kentucky Colonels. According to the project's heads, a donor can offer a whole bookmobile ($3,000) or just some of its parts-a flywheel for $9, a gas tank for $17.50, or even a connecting rod for 12?. So far, a total of 20 bookmobiles has been promised...
...least 10,000 U.S. babies have been conceived by artificial (donor) insemination in the past 15 years, and no major legal problems have cropped up. But New York University's Dr. Sophia J. Kleegman emphasized that the greatest care must be taken in selecting subjects. And, concerned about the uncertainties of public opinion, she thought it might be wise to change the name of the technique to "therapeutic insemination...