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...pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks...
That's really the point of the plot; the lure of baseball is bound to captivate anyone who ever goes out to the park. As one of the characters puts it, "baseball is like spring fever that lasts all summer." "It Happens Every Spring" is a silly but enjoyable parody on the summertime craze that we call the great American sport...
Diploma holders seeking employment will have to buck against fever jobs and a bumper crop of graduates, Ewen Clague, Federal Commissioner of Labor Statistics, said in a statement yesterday...
Next day Michael Hippisley, a hay-fever victim, who had injections for hay-fever last winter, was bundled off to the infirmary. When his sneezes showed no sign of letting up, alarmed school authorities sent him home to London. His parents called in, one after the other, two general practitioners, a hay-fever specialist, an otolaryngologist, a chiropractor and a hypnotist...
Until last Tuesday, this looked like the year to snap the losing streak. But at that point Curwen went to Stillman with a high fever, induced by a virus infection. Twenty-four hours later, seven oar Ollie Iselin came down with intestinal troubles, which kept him away from practice...