Medicine: Everybody's Seeing Kelly

The town of Argos, Ind. is small (pop. 1,190) but it is way ahead of most places in the matter of blood banks. Dr. Frank Hetherington Kelly, bespectacled head of the local ten-bed hospital, is fast getting the whole town of Argos to contribute to the bank. And he has a slick dodge all his own.

After testing a sample of blood, Dr. Kelly records the blood type right on the donor's body. With a vibrating tool he injects dots of a special oil-and-pigment mixture into the skin—a process not as painful but just...

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