Word: typing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep...
Over two years ago Dr. Arthur G. Schroeder operated on Mrs. Leota Hayden in Chicago's Ravenswood Hospital. After the operation Mrs. Hayden needed a blood transfusion. She had Type IV blood; therefore the donor's blood had to be of the same type. Transfusions of Types I, II, or III blood would clot in her serum, block her circulation...
...Schroeder had tested Mrs. Hayden's brother-in-law, George Mohr, and knew that he had Type IV blood. George Mohr was waiting in the reception room. "Bring in the donor," called Dr. Schroeder to a nurse. The nurse phoned a hospital employe, who ran to the reception room. There, nervously pacing the floor, was Arthur Fuller, Type II, waiting to give a transfusion to his mother. "Come along," said the employe...
Obediently Arthur Fuller trotted down the hall into the operating room. On a table lay a woman, swathed in white sheets, who Arthur Fuller assumed was his mother. Dr. Schroeder assumed that Arthur Fuller was the Type IV donor he wanted. He pumped Arthur Fuller's Type II blood into Mrs. Hayden's Type IV veins. In a few hours she was dead...
...with most plans of this type there are no funds available for enactment. Perhaps some intelligent alumnus, seeing the dire need for a new infirmary, will donate a successor to Stillman. Otherwise Dr. Bock together with the officers of the University will have to devise some plan for canvassing the alumni and friends of the University. Harvard needs a new, bigger, and more complete infirmary, and she needs...