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...corporation called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances...
...Lawrence Corser '54, will get under way today. The goal. is 2500 pins of blood to be donated by students and citizens is the Cambridge area. This goal is 400 pints more than has ever been collected in drives anywhere in the United States. Because of the use of gamma globulin in the fight against polio, the Red Cross needs one million pints more than last year...
...doubt that men can make . . . the ten-megaton bomb with a force of 10 million tons of TNT." Air Secretary Thomas Finletter was just as gloomy as the Alsops. He said: "The destructive power of atomic weapons includes not only explosive blasts of force and heat but also the gamma ray-a ray which is deadly to human life. The gamma ray is, as it were, a horrible new byproduct-a deadly dividend-of the atomic explosion. "It seems to be impossible to understand the political and military implications of the existence of atomic weapons...
...American Red Cross called for blood donations on an all-out, wartime scale, beginning at once, so that gamma globulin (TIME, Nov. 3) can be processed in readiness for next year's polio epidemics. The goal: 5,000,000 pints ¶Doctors of the Food & Drug Administration, spurred by last summer's scare about Chloromycetin, checked 539 cases of blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia, which might have been caused by drugs. In. 55, they found, Chloromycetin was used alone, and in 143 with other drugs, but in 341 cases other drugs or no drugs had been used...
These fraternities reporting flags missing were Phi Delia Theta, Reta Theta Pi Delta Upsilon, Zeta Psi Theta Delta chi and Phi Gamma Delia...