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...Queues. In Omaha, Billy Paxton, 13, told to make a list of practices important to dental hygiene, wrote: 1) "Brush your teeth after every meal"; 2) "See your dentist twice a year"; 3) "Stay away from fountains where they push...
...hero (Trevor Howard) is a dentist with a thing about elephants. After long confinement in a Nazi concentration camp, he goes to Africa to be near the great beasts-"the image of freedom and space"-and is horrified to see "this gigantic, clumsy natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary...
Furious, he conducts a one-man raid on a well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...
Next morning the local post office is swamped with cables supporting the elephant man. The world's conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants...
Married. Althea Louise Brough, 35, national women's singles tennis champion in 1947, Wimbledon champion in 1948, '49, '50, and '55; and Dentist Alan T. Clapp, 35, of Pasadena; in Santa Barbara, Calif...