Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peach Buds & Flu. In Banker Christie's Phoenix, spring had come three weeks early, bringing the fragrance of orange blossoms. The talk of the town was the upcoming Junior Chamber of Commerce rodeo, and the talk of the Junior C. of C. was the enterprise of Bright Young Man Lee Ackerman and his aide, Chuck Mueller, who are so convinced of the future growth of Phoenix that they are buying and selling nearby desert acreage that only a jack rabbit could call home...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...first singles, captain Ben Heckscher closed out a superlative intercollegiate career by swamping Yale's Charlie Kingsley, 15-5, 15-4, and 17-16. Kingsley had come down with the flu Friday and was no match for the Crimson's intercollegiate singles champion, although it is doubtful if the score would have been much closer, even if Kingsley had been at his best...
Most of the Nixon campaign days are 18 hours long; the toughest of them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first...
...voice hoarse and his temperature up to nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile swing through the length and breadth of the U.S. More specifically, the doctor begged Nixon to cancel his speech that night in Salt Lake City...