Capsules

P: Researchers for the National Cancer Institute of Canada reported promising results with a new blood test for cancer: a high proportion of glutamic acid in the blood apparently indicates malignancy. In 20 cases out of 22, the test proved right.

P: In Manhattan, Joseph L. Brandt and Sidney Greenberg were convicted of using the mails to defraud contributors to their "Cancer Welfare Fund." In ten months they took in $123,003, passed out only $7,349. As "principal architect of the plan," Brandt drew 3 1/2 years in prison, Greenberg, 2 1/2.

P: Despite repeated, urgent appeals for blood (TIME, Oct. 22), the armed forces are still not getting their 75,000 pints a week. Donations in the last week of October: 72,685 pints (19,281 from servicemen, 53,404 from civilians).

P: In Pasadena, Calif., four-year-old Donnie Morton of Archerwill, Sask., who had made good progress in a series of operations for water on the brain (TIME, July 2 and Sept. 3), caught pneumonia and died in his sleep.

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