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...settle scary rumors that fluorides added to drinking water (to protect the teeth of the young from decay) may have harmful effects, the U.S. Public Health Service compared death rates and causes in cities with and without fluorides in their water. The upshot: no difference...
Brighter Smiles. A new toothpaste containing the antibiotic tyrothricin is being test-marketed by Pepsodent. The toothpaste, called Shield, claims to retard tooth decay. Prices: about...
Apachefied Dickens. Born in 1894, Cèline as an adult became a doctor in the Paris slums, a perfect apprenticeship for a writer who saw everything in terms of filth, corruption and decay. Two novels, boiling with ferocious vitality and humor, Death on the Installment Plan (TIME, Aug. 29, 1938) and Journey to the End of the Night (TIME, April 30, 1934), established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation...
...Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition at the Health School, said in the Boston Herald Monday that the "vast majority" of the Health and Dental faculty members favor fluoridation "as the best way at present to reduce by about half the incidence of dental decay." Stare said last night that Williams is practically the only Health School man opposing fluoridation, while 30 or 40 doctors there favor...
...make a definitive prediction as to where the country's sex-obsession would lead. He did say, however, that, on the basis of historical induction; "in general the periods of sexual anarchy in great cultures come shortly before decay." This is true whether the decay proved to be temporary or irretrievable...