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...common cold, striking down more than 80 prospective donors, prevented the Phillips Brooks blood drive, which ended, yesterday, from reaching its quota of 300 pints. Final totals revealed that 249 men and women had given blood over the three-day period...
With final totals well over the quota of 300 originally set for the Phillips Brooks House blood drive, actual donations start today at noon. Headed by one woman who is back for a thirty-sixth time, donors will report today, tomorrow and Friday for appointments...
Stanley M. Strawson, Jr. '47, chairman of the blood donor committee, stressed the importance of surpassing the earlier quota set for the drive. "We want to make sure that we have more than 300 actual donors," he stated, indicating that last-minute ineligibilities would thus be covered by the extra pledges...
...Additional volunteers are still needed to meet the quota," Strawson warned, "as many who have already signed up to give blood may be rejected for medical reasons. Such reasons include low hemoglobin count or a fever...
With responses received from more than 130 students, the Harvard-Radcliffe blood drive promises to go well over its quota of 300 donors, Phillips Brooks House officials declared last night...