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With Boston's supply of blood plasma greatly diminished by a Cocoaunt Grove disaster and despite an additional supply being flown in from Washington, the Boston Donor Center has sent out pleas to all Harvard students for additional contributions. So great has been the initial response that appointments cannot be made until the first of next week, but greater and greater donation will be needed as the situation grows more critical...
...effort to relieve a critical situation. Allen H. Barton '45, member of the War Service Committee in charge of the blood donor service, announced last night that an intensive drive for student contributions would be undertaken in the near future...
Died. Harold Keates Hales, 74, eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an impressive trophy to bestow (temporarily) every time a ship broke the speed record. Last ship to win it was the Queen Mary. Hales was curiously in & out of the news all his life: he flew an airplane around St. Paul's Cathedral in 1908; when he was a Conservative...
Turned over to the University by an anonymous private donor, the former site of John Harvard's house in Charles town will be made over into a play ground for the city of Boston, it was announced last night...
Through special arrangement between the President and Fellows of the College and the donor, the new "John Harvard Mall" will be formally persecuted to the City of Boston for the use of the public and children of the city on completion. The date for the presentation has not yet been announced...