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...Trainer, of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, declared yesterday that the College should be congratulated on its response to the blood drive. He explained that under the Public Health policy any community which meets its quota of one pint for 150 persons will be allowed free blood at the Massachusetts Blood Bank upon request...
...pints of blood were donated yesterday, including 7 pints from Radcliffe, also participating to help meet the 100-pint quota of the Harvard Blood Committee. Response of donors today, last day of the drive, will determine whether the quota can be met by men making appointments this morning or filling appointments missed yesterday...
Many readers may have felt, as does Author Lane, that Beatrix Potter-whose pint-sized Tales have become classic portraits of a fast-fading age-possessed "small but authentic genius," but few could have said so to Miss Potter. For she was born and bred in a tradition of Victorian modesty so extreme as to win her a place among English eccentrics...
...real anger had gone out of the debate over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
...foodstuffs imported by U.S. occupation authorities last summer, many Japanese would have starved. But farmers estimated that the current rice harvest would be 57,000,000 koku* (a koku is just over five bushels). Effective Nov. 1, the Government would increase the daily rice ration to a full pint, highest since the early days...