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Arthur D. Bloom '56, publicity chairman for the drive, was not as satisfied. The committee had set a 2500-pint goal, and Bloom termed the total merely "satisfactory...
Eugel explained that contributing blood is not dangerous. Only one pint of blood is taken from each donor and there are 14 pints in the body. In 72 hours the blood content of the body is back to normal. "A pint of blood can be taken from the body every eight weeks without ill effect," he said...
...generations, the sidewalks in front of saloons in Britain's industrial districts have been thronged with children playing melancholy hopscotch while parents, too poor for baby sitters, downed a pint or two behind the swinging doors. (" 'Ere, luv, you play outside 'ere, there's a good girl. Dads and me'll be out in a shake.") In recent years, some enterprising pub keepers have provided waiting rooms to keep the kids out of the cold, but even these fail to make waiting for Mum and Dads a cheerful affair...
...peers. Arcaro says flatly that Willie already ranks with "the greatest in the country." Sharp-eyed old Earl Sande also ranks Willie with the best, and adds that if Arcaro himself "has anything on him, it might be that he is bigger and a bit stronger." For among the pint-sized fraternity of jockeys, sinewy Willie Shoemaker is a half-pint (4 ft.11 in., 96 Ibs.) who eats what he wants, never has to worry, as most of his fellow workers do, about putting on weight...
Miss Gabor made her last appearance on the local scene when she landed from a helicopter last spring to give the first pint in a Harvard blood drive...