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...medicine is called Stable Plasma Protein Solution, and is produced automatically by a machine. Blood does not flow into a bottle, but directly from donor to machine...
...Bequest of the week: $1,000,000 to Princeton, from a millionaire Clearfield,-Pa. coal dealer who never went to college. Only stipulation in the will: that the money be used for some purpose that will bear its donor's name, Abram K. Wright. ¶The Winter Haven, Fla. High School faculty decided not to let their students appear on the same stage with students from Jewett (Negro) High School for a Junior Chamber of Commerce speech contest. Subject for the contestants: "I speak for Democracy...
...Rice, at that time married to the late Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener, the donor of the Widener Library, built the Institute at a cost of $235,000. A short time later he was appointed a professor of Geographical Exploration...
During the twenties, the donor, Gordon Selfride (who founded one of London's largest department stores) heard that what was left of the Medici family was selling all the family papers. Although the Italian Government heard, too, and withdrew almost all of them, Selfridge bought enough to make 144 volumes. These were first bound and then given to the Baker Library...
...donor of the collection is 73-year-old Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., late of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who first took up his odd pursuit in 1928, after more than 25 years spent in fighting the Empire's battles, from skirmishes in India to the trenches of World War I. Instead of retiring to his London town house, which bristles with lion and panther heads, he teamed up with his young cousin, Zoologist Theresa Clay, and mounted an offensive against the Mallophaga. He and Theresa believe that the lice can be used as a small...