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...fever at Minneapolis, where a record 14,751 jampacked University of Minnesota's fieldhouse, was a measure of the epidemic spread of schoolboy basketball's popularity in virtually every Midwest town. At the final game of Illinois' state tourney, scalpers charged $60 for seats. When Anderson High won the Indiana state championship before a wildly cheering crowd, school closed for three days. Until tiny Danbury (Iowa) High (15 boys) was eliminated last week, R.F.D. Mailman Jack Colbert twice drove 300 miles to Iowa City in his jeep to see Danbury play, sped back...
Last week some U.S. citizens were manfully gulping these traditional concoctions. For spring fever was epidemic in the land. In Washington, ex-Farm-Boy Harry Truman sniffed spring flowers (see cut), posed with a sunny smile under sunny Washington skies...
...William F. Petersen, professor of pathology at Illinois University and coauthor of The Patient and the Weather, offered a medical reason for spring fever: "In northern regions, the low ebb of vitality is reached in March and April. Blood pressure is low, blood vessels are tired. Winter has left . . . the body's store of blood proteins, vitamins and the rare minerals...
When spring comes, increased ultraviolet light invigorates the body; fresh food brings added minerals and vitamins, and the individual picks up. The result is a jerky, uphill climb to summer's expansive wellbeing. Spring fever, says Dr. Petersen, is the irregular cycle of alternating days of elation and fatigue, until the body has regained its pink of condition...
...following two weeks I had to be catheterized and there was slight, though not severe, difficulty in controlling the bowels. The fever lasted for only six or seven days, but all the muscles from the hips down were extremely sensitive to the touch and I had to have the knees supported by pillows. This condition of extreme discomfort lasted about three weeks...