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...potential return, however, that competitors to the Red Cross fear most. Jim MacPherson, executive director of the Council of Community Blood Centers, which represents independent blood banks that manage the other half of the nation's blood supply, says her assumption of the dual role of First Lady and head of the Red Cross could give the supposedly neutral organization a political edge and an unfair competitive advantage. "It's not reality. How could she come back?...How could any action that she would ever make be viewed objectively?" Especially if Bob Dole were to make good on his campaign...
...winter of 1942-43, MacPherson decided to stop waiting. A recruiter from the Tenth Mountain ski troop came to Kirkland House to encourage Harvard men to volunteer, looking for anyone with either skiing or rock-climbing experience, and MacPherson joined...
...That ski troop had the highest IQ of any troop in the army, because most of them were recruited from college," MacPherson recalls...
...MacPherson, who was awarded the Bronze Star during the war, spent most of his two years fighting in Italy, where he was wounded several times, but never sustained an injury more serious than a concussion...
...Like MacPherson, other members of the Class of 1946 began to head off to the battlefield. Some even followed the same path...