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...event, festive Marines in uniform shouted “Happy Birthday” to one another and greeted three Harvard undergraduates in attendance who are planning to join the Marine Corps. “It’s exciting to see so many people in uniform with the red-blood stripe down their leg,” said Joseph M. Kristol ’09, a Midshipman 4th class in the Naval ROTC. “It’s good to be around real Marines.” In a bow to their Business School surroundings, the traditional...
Allergic Reaction. Probably the first human being to receive the enzyme was a boy in Chicago who was dying of leukemia. After infusions of partially purified enzyme from guniea-pig serum, his white-cell count decreased, and so did the swelling of some of his organs. But his red-blood cells were being destroyed as an apparent side effect and treatment had to be stopped. The boy died of his leukemia. The problem of purification remains. Even the presumably safer material extracted from bacteria, in its currently purest form, causes allergic reactions in mice-as it did to some extent...
Yarvin described the Swarthmore students as "consciously suburban." He noted that out of 140 freshman boys, 135 received athletics letters. "The red-blood-] well rounded American boy is being thought at Swarthmore," Yarvin said, "the result is a homogeneous student body." Harvard students appeared to defy classification, he added...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...RED-BLOOD?Harold H. Armstrong? Harper ($2.00). Dr. Wellington Dennison McNicol was a doer ? go-getter ? a red-blood ? from his youth up. Handicapped at the start by poverty, illegitimate birth and the surroundings of a decayed Canadian village, he never faltered in his ambitions? to marry the girl he wanted, to make money, to be a Great Man. And, like an energetic person he achieved his aims. Middle age found him wealthy, married to a girl far superior to his original intended, and the father of a family to carry on the red-blood tradition...