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...sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine), individual hospitals and private blood agencies. An estimate adds 3,000 more to the registered list. The total of 5,000 is thrice the estimated number of a few months ago. Cause of the tripling: the Depression. Sellers get $50 a pint for blood, less 10% to 20% agency commissions...
...Pittsfield, Mass, last week ten men gathered around a dozen pint bottles for a drinking bout. Seven died. Three went blind. Cause: wood alcohol used by the U. S. Treasury Department as an industrial denaturant...
Arthur Newton ran 20 miles a day to keep training. He wore leather socks next his skin. Every hour he drank a half-pint glass of lemonade containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and cracked ice. Other records: London to Brighton?5 hr. 53 min. 43 sec., 1924; 100 mi. at Bulawayo...
...theatres or saloons should never be allowed on their properties. Electric signs were equally taboo. They established a record in Puritanism when they held up a $1,000,000 lease until they obtained guarantees that certain first-aid kits in the projected building would not contain more than one pint of whiskey. The main tradition handed on by Brother John had been long in the family: "Buy, but never sell."' Ella Wendel is now 80. Some day there will be no Wendels either to buy or to sell...
Albert John Galen, 54, onetime cowpuncher, Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, won the Republican nomination for the Senate over Oliver Hazard Perry ("One Half Pint") Shelley, one-time Montana Prohibition Administrator, Red Lodge publisher. Like Senator Walsh, Nominee Galen is a Roman Catholic. Unlike...