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Hazelnut Size. Said McNulty: the operation was a failure. The grafted kidney was not functioning and never had. It had shrunk, he said, to the size of a hazelnut. The reason, Dr. McNulty said, was that the donor's tissues were incompatible with Mrs. Tucker's. His statements were given to reporters, and one of them phoned Mrs. Tucker...
...something to their jumble sale last winter she thought she'd "get rid of it once and for all." She tagged the picture at a few shillings and sent it off. But bargain-hunting villagers didn't give it a second glance. Back it came to its donor...
...reported under the Lobby Act). The contributor then gives the C.C.G. back its own books for distribution. Large contributors can also finance the mailing of C.C.G. literature to churches, schools, and libraries. These gifts are then claimed tax deductable as "charitable contributions" to these institutions, although the donor remains anonymous. This system has met with considerable success; C.C.G.'s total income from August 1946 to June 1950 was over two million. The sources of this generous support are still kept secret by Mr. Rumely, but his mailing list for appeals includes an admitted "20,000 corporation presidents, 10,000 millionaires...
Processing in the compact, portable machine is carried out in a closed system from the vein of the donor to the final plastic containers for the blood components. It was engineered for use in hospital donor centers or under emergency conditions...
...paring knife. A week later, after two blood transfusions at Johns Hopkins, Botts died. A murder indictment was handed up against Vencill, charging him with "assaulting and stabbing and causing the death of" Eugene Botts. Meanwhile the hospital discovered that, although Botts's blood was Type O ("universal donor"), he had mistakenly been given blood of the rare Type AB. Revised finding of the city medical examiner: death was almost certainly due to a kidney block caused by the wrong blood...