At his Friday press conference, Franklin Roosevelt did not chain-smoke, as usual; in fact, he did not smoke at all. His voice had a hoarse, stopped-up quality, indicating a head cold. Well knowing the acute national interest in Mr. Roosevelt's health, the White House promptly announced that the President's ailment was no more than a slight In Boston, the President's personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, said: "He was hit by the flu, and hard hit when he was sick recently, but he's right back in shape." Last week the President...
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