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Before the 16th century barbers, in addition to cutting hair, acted as part-time surgeons--treating wounds, pulling teeth and bloodletting--because early physicians didn't want to deal with the untidiness of surgery. In fact, the father of modern surgery. Ambroise Pare, began his career as a barber of sorts...
...George Papalimberis, a Greek immigrant and owner of the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle Street, a mecca for area professors and politicians, says he has never pulled a customer's tooth...
Paving a circular path through the mounds of cut hair on the floor surrounding his customer's chair. Papalimberis looks more like a commercial sculptor than a barber or surgeon. But Papalimberis's reasons for cutting hair are more practical than aesthetic...
...Being a barber you spend 15 to 20 minutes on everybody's head, so you get to talk to them and educate yourself," says George...
...George says he gets to educate himself through many types of people, including Harvard students, professors from Harvard. Tufts, and MIT, and Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Papalimberis is the governor's personal barber. "Some women at the statehouse say to him [Dukakis]. 'Who cut your hair?'" says Papalimberis. "I don't know if that's true, but that's what he says...