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...wise child that knows his own father, but henceforth the Rh* factor will make it easier to establish paternity. Brooklyn's famed Blood-Expert Alexander Wiener pointed out last week that there are eight Rh blood types (instead of two, as hitherto believed). The factors are inherited and can be used to prove whether a given man could possibly be a given child's father. The Rh factors raise possible blood-type combinations to 288, raise an innocent man's chances of proving non-paternity from one in three...
Attending an expectant mother in Solihull, near Birmingham, the doctors had good reason to believe that, like 85% of humanity, their patient's baby would have blood containing the mysterious factor Rh in positive form (TIME, Nov. 27). Such infants, cradled in the womb of a mother whose Rh factor is negative, occasionally develop a fatal anemia known as Erythroblastosis fetalis. The Solihull mother had already lost three babies for that reason...
...Wasp and the Fire. Meanwhile, the Germans, kept up their diversionary offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket...
When such a woman conceives an Rh-positive child, there is a 1-in-30 chance that the child's blood may create a dangerous reaction in the mother's blood -with the result that the child, if it lives to be born, will have a dangerous disease called erythroblastosis fetalis, character ized by anemia and jaundice...
About 15% of U.S. men & women are Rh-negative and about 10% of marriages are in the danger zone. Some 5,000 babies with erythroblastosis fetalis are born alive each year, and 5,000 more are born dead...