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Doctor Says:
Weather Decides A Baby’s Sex
(From Brooke McClure, The Sunday Times Special U.S.A. Representative.)
NEW YORK, Saturday
Dr. William F. Peterson, pathology expert of Illinois University, is convinced that the fact of a baby being born a boy or girl is largely due to temperature.
He believes that, broadly speaking, girl babies are the result of warm weather conditions and males the result of cold weather.
More geniuses as well as sub-normal babies are born when weather conditions are unsettled, and he believes that Europe is filled with so many turbulent figures because its climate is more unsettled than the climate of many other parts of the world.
The Sunday Times, 1939
The two-ton Federal lorry looked entirely out of place with the imposing elegance of Oaklea as a
