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President Roosevelt's fever came down (from 99.2° to normal). Back at his big desk again for a morning's work, he lunched with Wisconsin's trapmouthed Senator Robert Marion La Follette...
...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
...infant death rate for 1937, says Dr. Gumpert, represents a rise of 1.5% over the previous year in the cities. Manhattan lost 4.5% of its babies; Holland lost 3.8%. And Mother Conti should have a hard job explaining to her son why cases of puerperal (childbed) fever jumped from...
...attractive to great masses of people. Though his official job is teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...
...Harvard teachers were directly involved, attendance zoomed; at one session nearly 300 Faculty members attended the largest meeting in Harvard history. Encouraged by the big turn-outs, the Faculty voted to suspend the Faculty Council for a year and to resume regular full Faculty meetings. But now the fever has subsided, mid-winter apathy has set in, and on alternate Tuesdays only a handful of men, like loyal rooters for the Brooklyn Dodgers, dot the vast, ornate Faculty room on the second floor of University Hall...