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Norman and his associates--among whom is Dr. Victor C. Covelli, Research Fellow in Surgery--earlier discovered the crucial role of the spleen in producing Factor VIII, a substance whose presence in the body prevents hemophilia...
...disease takes the form of a deficiency in antihemophilic globulin--Factor VIII. In normal humans the Factor VIII level in the blood stream ranges from 50 to 200 per cent. Hemophiliacs generally have a Factor VIII level of less than 25 per cent...
...Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from her martial collection, which has now grown to 30,000 volumes and 40,000 graphic illustrations...
...even the Duchess of Windsor, 70, qualifies. The Duchess "has been officially relegated to the position of a second-class wife," complains British Genealogist Philip Thomas in the latest edition of the authoritative Burke's Peerage. The harsh terms of her morganatic marriage to the abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred to as "Her Royal Highness" instead of having to scruff along as "Her Grace...
...matter in the long argument over whether to reform Britain's archaic criminal statutes against homosexuality. Despite a flurry of last-minute amendments aimed at killing the reform bill, the M.P.s passed it by a 7-1 margin. For the first time since the era of Henry VIII, private homosexual acts between consenting males over 21 will not be subject to criminal prosecution...