Curry Blocks Landing on Common For Harvard Blood Drive Publicity

Only a few hours after the Air Force offered to donate the helicopter which will transport Magda Gabor, ace Hungarian beauty, to Cambridge Saturday afternoon, City Manager John Curry yesterday refused blood drive officials permission to land the copter in the Cambridge Common.

Miss Gabor will open the drive with a pint of her own blood.

Blood drive co-chairmen Alan I. W. Frank '54 and D. Lawrence Corser '54 stated last night they are searching for another landing site "in the vicinity of the Square, although the Common looked like the best spot."

The Harvard Liberal Union meanwhile announced they will give each blood contributor a free ticket to a May showing of Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman." After three days of campaigning, the blood drive has netted 2,761 pledges, contrasted to 2,535 pledges at same time last fall, when the previous pledging record was set. Lowell and Leverett are now leading the Houses; over 60 percent of each House is pledged to contribute