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...Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography (The Spirit of St. Louis), gave his $500 prize money to Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery, in memory of his maternal grandfather, Dentist Charles H. Land (1847-1922). A revolutionary figure in dentistry, Dr. Land perfected a way of enveloping defective teeth in porcelain jackets, and in 1884 invented a gas furnace for baking the porcelain. Lindbergh first made friends with Columbia Dental School when he started parceling out items from his grandfather's laboratory...
Some of the building's equipment is in good condition, such as the dental facilities. In contrast is the pictured "potboiler," used for years to sterilize instruments...
...Muscatatuck State School for the Mentally Retarded. Dr. Groesbeck saw his first case of rickets in 36 years as a licensed physician, so bad was the malnutrition. Expensive new medical and dental equipment was found crated in basements, where it had rusted for ten years or more -nobody was interested enough to unpack it, and anyhow, there was no technical staff...
...obvious that many students do wear glasses. It seems surprising, then, that the Hygiene Department has no facilities for eye care. When students catch colds, they drop in for a shot of penicillin at the Hygiene Building. When they get toothaches, they visit the clinic's complete dental facilities. But when they suffer eyestrain, they face the unhappy alternative of ruining their eyes or riding in to Boston on the MTA to see a specialist. As a result, many students delay a checkup until their original eye strain is worse...
...Lyon, who can whistle and hum two songs at once) and spends the rest of the all-too-brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental floss, an all-expense, two-week vacation trip to Youngstown, Ohio, one brand-new screen door (together with 200 flies...