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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH, No Vampire but Out for Blood, Seeks Feminine Pulse-Encouragers | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bleed the Way | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: How Basic Is Basic? | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Pipeline for D.P.s | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poor Eat Turkey; Blood Drive Ends | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

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