Word: polk
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Phillips Brooks House collected 550 pints for blood during its three day drive to exceed last fall's total by 163 pints, William, R. Polk '51, drive chairman, announced last night...
William R. Polk '51, drive chairman, expects even more students to contribute tomorrow; he has ordered more beds and nurses to speed the collection process. If 700 students in all give blood, Harvard will set a new national record for a three-day drive...
Collection of blood for the spring Red Cross drive starts today at Phillips Brooks House. Almost a thousand students have pledged donations, and William R. Polk '51, drive chairman, expects the current drive to exceed last fall's total of 387 pints...
...Wayne Richardson, 51, veteran Associated Press correspondent in China, the Overseas Press Club's George Polk memorial award, for "courage, integrity and enterprise." Bound home from Hong Kong, balding, bespectacled "Pop" Richardson cancelled his plane reservation, signed up as radio operator on the U.S. freighter Flying Arrow. When Chinese Nationalists shelled the blockade runner off Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 16), Richardson got an exclusive story...
...Council also unanimously approved Burke's appointment of Robert P. Hyde '51 and William R. Polk '51 as chairman and vice-chairman respectively of next years Combined Charities Drive...