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Blood from more than 8,000 volunteers poured into Red Cross Blood Donor Centers last week-and 2,000 lives that could not have been saved in World War I had a chance of being saved in World War II. For science has discovered how to store plasma, the life-giving liquid part of the blood: one pint of blood makes a pint of the plasma solution; four pints of plasma may mean the difference between life and death...
...thousands of ladies in production centers who whipped up hospital garments, diapers, children's clothing, made millions of surgical dressings for the armed forces. Nurse's Aide Corps taught women to take over the routine jobs of nursing, to free trained nurses for other jobs. A blood donor's service filled blood banks for transfusions. With few delusions about women's greatest talents, officials stressed three prosaic training courses for housewives who wanted to help: First Aid, Home Nursing, Nutrition...
...While Curator Hipkiss pointed out good and bad features, Collector Karolik asked questions, absorbed information. To old New England and Philadelphia matrons, startled at the idea of selling American antiquity to a man with a Russian accent, they explained that every piece would go to the Boston Museum. Says Donor Karolik: "About the things that happened collecting you could write a vaudeville...
Connoisseurs looked approvingly at tankards functionally designed in 1700 by Silversmiths David Jesse and John Coney, clucked with admiration over Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley portraits. Loudest praise was brought forth by the results of Donor Karolik's greatest hobby, 18th-Century furniture. Some experts from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New England pronounced it second only to the huge (148 rooms) private collection of Wilmington's Henry F. du Pont. Each of the 125 exhibits showed the care in selection which Karolik had considered so necessary...
Harvard men need not risk their lives to give blood for their country. The American Red Cross is providing an opportunity for every student to make an important contribution to the war effort, by acting as a blood donor...