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Matching these rare forward steps in dentistry was Dr. John J. Fitz-Gibbon's method of covering cleft palates with gold plates. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon, who practices...
Holyoke, Mass., has a cleft palate himself, got into dentistry through his efforts to mend it. Covering the gap in the back of the mouth where the soft palate should be was his problem. Normally during speech the soft palate moves and forms a partition between the mouth and the cavity back of the nose (nasopharynx). Without it sounds reverberate through the nose. Artificial palates made of hardened rubber for the hard palate and soft rubber for the soft palate do not work well. Hinged artificial palates cause trouble...
...sons creep quietly about the house. At practice, Bierman stands almost still, speaks in a low voice, nervously twirls a whistle attached to a black cord. He rarely blows the whistle but the cord wears out every ten days. His appearance is extraordinary. He has green eyes, a cleft chin and snow-white hair. He earns about $15,000 a year, drives a Chevrolet...
Political oldsters began to remark with surprise that they believed John D. M. Hamilton with his cleft chin might prove a worthy match for James A. Farley with his double chin. Within 48 hours the two were at each other's throats...
Pinkham management has been cleft almost from the beginning, but the family has never before brought its differences to law. According to Lynn legend, Daughter Aroline got a letter in 1879 from her brother Charles, first president of the company, expressing the wish that when he died his wife should be made president. When Charles died in 1900, it was not his wife but Daughter Aroline's husband, William H. Gove, who was chosen. After 20 years, at Cove's death in 1920, the Pinkhams finally got the offices they wanted. But Mrs. Gove as treasurer...