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...cause the deaths? No one could say for sure; the three patients who died after injections were very ill anyway. The FDA analyzed some of the bottles, found they contained a pyrogenic (fever-causing) substance. When laboratory rabbits were injected with the solution, half died, half got sick...
Poet Laureate John Masefield straightened out some Manhattan eighth-graders who had written him asking the correct version of Sea-Fever's opening line. "The line was first printed: 'I must go down,' etc.," he said. "After about 20 years I altered this to 'I must down,' etc. But after about another 20 years I repented and put 'go' back. And now, alas, I cannot make up my mind...
Maybe it was spring fever, but the lacrosse team had an off day yesterday. Fortunately for the Maddux forces, the group they faced was from Tufts, not Dartmouth, so the stick handlers scraped...
...been studying the medical fata morgana of the decisive effects of weather and sunspots on human beings. His latest book about them: Man-Weather and Sun. He is definitely against spring (TIME, March 25, 1946). This week he broke out again in his annual rash of anti-spring fever: United Press and This Week carried thunderhead interviews...
More people, said Petersen, kill themselves, go insane or die of natural causes during April, May and June than at any other time of year. Spring fever is no laughing matter, says Anti-Vernalist Petersen: the human frame, drained of energy and vitamins during the winter, is a pushover for physical and mental ailments. He did not prescribe sulphur & molasses, but to his faithful he offered a further seasonal sentiment: a majority of the world's criminals, and most of its geniuses, were conceived in the spring. Dr. Petersen, 61, was born in March...