Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arturo Toscanini was back in the U.S. last week after five months in Italy, steaming to get back to his NBC Symphony podium. To his extreme annoyance, he came down with a touch of flu, and his doctor told him he would have to postpone his opening concert this week. At 86, the Maestro still hates to miss a curtain...
...fullback Jerry Jones, the team's leading rusher last season has gained less than 50 yards this season. Slowed down at first by the flu, Jones hasn't come along well. Latest statistics give him 43 yards gained in 12 carries. Jones in the process has lost his job to a former junior understudy, Phil Mathias. Mathias has carried the weight of the Yale attack and has stood up surprisingly well. He carried 31 times for 100 yards against Colgate, and made 34 in ten tries against Dartmouth. But observers say he is not the runner Jones...
...Flu Strikes Yardlings...
...freshman race, Princeton, running on its home course, has the edge over the flu-stricken Yardlings. Captain Bill Morris and Dave McLean, the top Crimson runners, both have severe colds. This is the first time the undefeated Crimson '57 harriers have not been the favorites...
Firebrand No. 1, Nye Bevan himself, was down with flu and reportedly deeply depressed. Influential Bevanite M.P.s, notably Dick Grossman and Desmond Donnelly, are quietly counseling Nye to let the rebel rump die and return to party regularity. The new Bevanite line: "We have accomplished much. Our job must now be to consolidate the party...