Old wives' tales hold that sulphur & molasses, forced down squalling young throats in early spring, provides a needed thickening of the blood, thinned down by winter. Farmers' almanacs advise rural readers to drink sassafras tea and rhubarb brews to cleanse the body of winter's ills.
Last week some U.S. citizens were manfully gulping these traditional concoctions. For spring fever was epidemic in the land. In Washington, ex-Farm-Boy Harry Truman sniffed spring flowers (see cut), posed with a sunny smile under sunny Washington skies.
Dr. William F. Petersen, professor of pathology at Illinois...
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