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Died. Edward ("Spike") Howard, 68, world's champion blood donor (1,100-odd pints); reportedly of a blood clot; in Philadelphia. A onetime (1922) "Strongest Man in the World," 240-lb. Spike bragged that his blood flowed in the veins of the best families (he gave some to the late President Calvin Coolidge's father, the ex-wife of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor George Earle), but was proudest that he had never sold a drop...
...Contact," a Brooks House program that enables Harvardmen in the armed forces to keep in touch with their classmates, is still maintained as a transition service, while the wartime blood donor organization has been converted to supply Cambridge hospitals instead of the Red Cross...
...described "the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the College gave to my undergraduate years," and claimed it "as vivid today as it was a half century ago." Accepting the girt, President Conant brought out Lamont's previous generosity, and described the banker as "a wise and far-seeing donor...
Next spring, when the $4 million Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library begins to rise on Princeton's campus, it wall contain a special poetry room dedicated to Francis Charles MacDonald. The anonymous donor of $20,000 prefers to be known only as "a grateful advisee...
Industrial Cooperation. Donor Sloan wants to find out whether research on the same "broad and comprehensive scale" as modern industrial research can crack the problem of cancer. That is why he put Dr. Kettering, boss of G.M. research for 25 years, in charge of the program...