Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most music lovers, Toscanini already comes closer to the secrets than anyone before him. He does his best to ignore the legend of his own greatness, but he knows that it is around. At a rehearsal of his all-Debussy concert a month ago, he was flushed with a fever of 102 degrees. His friends tried to persuade the old man not to conduct, but he was insistent. Said he, as he trudged out to the podium: "Sometimes I must act like Toscanini...
...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...
...half a century, doctors have known that infected mosquitoes spread malaria. The unsolved mystery has been: Where does the parasite that causes malaria hide out during the ten-day interval between the mosquito's bite and the appearance of the fever? An answer might cut down the world death rate from malaria, still nearly 2,000,000 victims a year...
...FUTURE was, after all, rather inscrutable, Western Europeans could make the best of the tangible present. Football fever gripped Paris. Fifty thousand jammed into the Colombes Stadium, outside the city, to watch Lille and the Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...