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Tony Vaccaro, Associated Press correspondent, was looking forward to his trip to Rio next month with President Truman. But he did not want to take a yellow-fever shot, just the same. He had been told that shots were optional. Now, as he was shoved into the White House clinic, he cried, "I don't believe in shots!" A White House physician stared at him coldly. Vaccaro was told that the President had changed the rules; all reporters had to be immunized...
...confused with an earlier Yankee Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel and Lazzeri), whose club banged out 158 home runs in 1927.**Last week, two other National League teams caught the fence-busting fever and broke out in a rash of home runs. In one game, the Stv Louis Cards and Pittsburgh Pirates hit ten between them, tying the major-league record...
...Football fever hit two unidentified undergraduates in a premature attack last night as they were the undisputed first arrivals in the unreserved section of the Yale Bowl...
Argasidae and Ixodidae are the two U.S. tick families. In dozens of varieties they infect man with diseases that are often fatal: Kenya typhus, South African tick-bite fever, Bullis fever, Russian encephalitis, the Q fevers, tularemia (rabbit fever), tick paralysis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This summer, in southern Maryland, Texas, and other tick-infested areas, widespread experiments in spotted fever vaccination are being tried...
...spread of intramural fever is expected to reach tennis and swimming shortly, with plans now being formulated by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, for tournaments in the two other popular summer sports...