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...last drive, Edward T. Kenyon '50 was vampired for an extra pint while another student vamped one of the female blood-letters on Memorial Hall steps. Kenyon quickly restored his internal liquid supply at a local beer emporium, but admitted that it was a trying experience...
...donors were regretfully turned away from the operating table. Too much alcohol in their veins, the doctors said; and the campaign fell short of its goal. Today another drive begins, and with the perils of a Big Weekend safely past, PBH officers dare to hope that the 200-pint quota will...
...Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...
...racketeers had used passports stolen from the Passport Office. The blank books were smuggled into Belgium, "validated" with a forged Foreign Office stamp, then sold to the highest bidders in Paris, Hamburg or Munich. When demand swamped supply, George and his associates hit on another scheme. Over many a pint in Glasgow pubs, they asked local folk to hand over their identity cards "to help a friend who wants to get to Eire." For a fiver, hundreds of Glaswegians did so. The card details, plus photographs of D.P. clients, were then used in filling out passport applications. When the passports...
...blood drive, completed last Tuesday, reached within 14 pints of its 200 pint quota. Jay Fialkow '48, PBH vice-president, declared the drive successful, pointing out that the 186 pints received from students earlier this week topped last year's quota by a considerable amount...