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...began to show. Bella Dodd, a New York lawyer, said that she had known a "middleaged" Adelaide Case in Communist-front organizations in 1940 and 1941, but she "never related her to" Clifford Case and did not know Case's sister. There was another, older Adelaide Case, no kin, who was a teacher at Teachers College, Columbia University, and who died...
...book for him. But he found it hard to get material, since "a pitiful, unreasoning fear . . . came to so many faces, both white and colored, when I mentioned the case." In the current issue of the Negro monthly Ebony, Huie openly charged that Circuit Judge Hal W. Adams (no kin to the slain doctor) has "the racial attitudes of Reconstruction." Furthermore, said Huie, Adams had been an honorary pallbearer at the doctor's funeral...
...Will, No Kin. U.S. medical colleges, scattered over 39 states, operate under laws providing that unclaimed bodies-usually, those of persons who die intestate and without known kin-can be assigned to them for dissection. Until recent years, the system worked well enough. Most of the corpses that went to medical schools were those of elderly and aged inmates of state institutions who had outlived family and friends alike. They had had medical care, and the cause of death was known, so there was no need for an autopsy. (Few vagrants reach the dissecting table because many die unattended...
While the necessary steps are taken to make sure that there are no kin or other legally qualified claimants for the body, it is embalmed. Many schools (or "body banks" representing all the schools in a metropolitan area) keep the bodies in cold storage for one to twelve months, to make sure that no belated claimant appears. In the anatomy class, the most practical number of students for each body is now put at four; one or two students usually work on one part while the others watch. The rest of the body is draped, and it is always treated...
...kin to ex-President Herbert Hoover...