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Blood, just as it comes from a donor's vein, is worth more than fine old cognac; but unlike brandy, blood is harmed by aging. Faced with the necessity of throwing this costly liquid away after its effective life of 21 days has passed, a crooked dealer may break the rules and sell it anyway. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged that a firm called Westchester Blood Service, Inc. had changed the dates on bottles of expired blood and then sold them to hospitals. It was the first such indictment ever...
...father's Kensett State Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll his own Bull Durham cigarettes, and to chaw tobacco without turning green (at least until he got out of the sight of the donor). He had another campaign asset in the comely person of his wife Clarine ("Polly"), whom he still describes as "the best handshaker a man ever married." Mills won easily, and by 1952 had become such a personage that Kensett's citizens proudly put up a sign at the town...
Pushing ahead with his campaign to humanize Britain's dismal prisons, Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler announced his newest device for rehabilitating gaolbirds: a $280 prize for the best original literary, artistic or musical composition produced behind bars. Unmentioned, at his own request, was the instigator and donor of the award: Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler, 56. whose Dialogue with Death and Scum of the Earth grew out of his own imprisonment by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War and by Vichy France during World...
Almost every Latin American nation agrees that the Alliance for Progress is a brilliant idea and the money welcome, but almost no Latin American nation wants the U.S., as donor, to tell it what to do with the money. Addressing the Inter-American Press Association in Manhattan last week. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson made it abundantly clear that the U.S. intends to see its money matched by performance and progress. ''Self-help! That is the key to much of our common concern,'' said Stevenson. "If it were lacking, no amount of money in outside aid will...
Radcliffe College dedicated the Wilbur K. Jordan co-operative houses yesterday afternoon in a brief ceremony held in the garden at 95 Walker St. Among those attending were President Mary I. Bunting, Mrs. Frederick W. Hilles, chief donor of the buildings, and Wilbur K. Jordan, former President of Radcliffe, pictured above...