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...Nuffield Foundation, hoping to find out, last week gave $360,000 to four universities to look hard into the British mouth. Some suspected that part of the money had best be invested in propaganda against indifference: of the 14,000,000 Britons whose insurance entitles them to dental care, less than 7% apply...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
Princess Gladys de Polignac of France's famed champagne family, Pommery (she married into it; her American mother married Le Petit Parisien's publisher), arrived in the U.S. on a Red Cross hunt for dental supplies, posed with a cluster of store teeth that was something new in costume jewelry. Item on her shopping list: four million false teeth...
Another head-shape fallacy was exploded last week by the University of Illinois dental school. Doctors have long supposed that an individual's head shape changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...
This whopping need exists despite the fact that the U.S. has been training doctors faster during the war than it ever did in peace. In 1943, all qualified students enrolled in medical and dental schools were signed up as Army or Navy trainees. Taking an accelerated three-year course, these military students (and a sprinkling of 4-Fs, women and foreigners) have been pouring through the schools so fast that between July 1942 and July 1948 the U.S. will have trained 40,000 new doctors-9,000 more than the preceding six years...