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Senator Tom Connolly gave more than a half pint of his blood to the Red Cross. The 64-year-old Texan was the first member of Congress to become a donor...
Admiral Ernest J. King got a present of a sleek, dark green town car to use in Washington. The donor: A. & P. Vice President Arthur G. Hoffman, who has no yacht to give the Navy...
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Pint Out. Pint In. Some 45,000 men & women volunteers have already taken Red Cross tests for blood. The technique, developed under the guidance of the National Research Council, is simple, painless. A nurse takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, a small sample of the blood. She asks whether the donor has a cold, or has ever had tuberculosis or malaria, fainting spells or fits. If the answer is no, if the donor looks healthy and the blood sample contains enough hemoglobin (80%), a doctor anesthetizes the inner arm below the elbow and the collecting needle slides painlessly into a vein...
...minutes the volunteer has parted with about a pint of blood. Afterwards he rests, gets a pint of fluid-milk, fruit juice, coffee or tea. Also obtainable but optional is a shot of whiskey. Some donors want to give more than once. The Red Cross will accept five bloodlettings a year from any one donor, at intervals of eight weeks or longer...