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...Johns Hopkins' School of Hygiene and Public Health, 150 U.S. vitamin experts got together last week. Sample swap talk: "Anybody buying vitamin E is probably a sucker, since no case of deficiency in an adult has been found . . . But it might be good for Rh babies, and those with diabetic mothers . . . Despite an abundance of sunshine and vitamin D, there is still a lot of rickets in Baltimore...
...baby was Cheryl Lynn Labrenz, seven days old. Her red blood cells were being destroyed because her blood, like her father's, contained the mysterious Rh (for rhesus) factor and her mother's did not. From her mother, Cheryl's blood had picked up an antibody which was attacking her own Rh-positive cells. These could win the battle only if reinforced by a transfusion...
...Darrell Labrenz, 25, and his wife Rhoda, 20. They had been childhood sweethearts at Dalton (pop. 400) in Wisconsin's dairyland. Little more than a year ago, they joined Jehovah's Witnesses and moved to Chicago with their first child, Kit. (As often happens in cases of Rh incompatibility, there had been no difficulty with the first-born.) Now, red-eyed and distraught, each with a Bible in hand, they fought off the city health authorities...
...taking of blood and the typing will require only a few minutes, with test officials hoping to process men at the rate of 70 an hour. Each man will receive a card on the spot, showing his blood type (one of four major blood groups plus his Rh factor status). Later the accuracy of the method will be determined in laboratory tests by Dr. Diamond...
...freshman lineup: Kennedy, le; Frate, lt; Picard, lg; Coolidge, c; McDowell, rg; Simonds, rt; Popell, re; Caimi, qb; Clasby, lh; O'Donnell, fb; Tulenko, rh...