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...Among dentists whose patients had trouble enunciating "s," or "t," or "th," there used to be a standard joke: "What we need is English-speaking dentures." In the March Journal of the American Dental Association. Dentist Howard E. Kessler of Cleveland reports that the jokesters were right. It is much harder to make dentures for English-speaking patients than for those with another mother tongue...
...differences. The vast majority of patients whose native language is not English, he finds, form the sounds of n, l, t, d, s and z with the tip of the tongue placed near to or against the back of the upper front teeth. No matter what a dentist does in fitting new plates, he is unlikely to interfere with this process. But patients with English as their native language hold the tongue higher - against the alveolar ridge just behind the base of the upper front teeth - to make the same sounds. And that is precisely where the average dentist making...
More damaging to the Guard's official stand was the 49th's commander. Major General Roy A. Green, 59, a dentist on the outside, who stood before the subcommittee while he blasted eleven weeks' training as "absolutely inadequate." In his own division, said Green, he accepts enlistments only if the enlistees agree to sign up for six months' training-and "we are gaining strength; we are gaining proficiency." One reason for his insistence on adequate training: as a regimental commander on Okinawa in 1945, he had taken on replacements with only six to eight weeks...
Snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg lost a tooth (to a dentist) and gained a year, making him 79. On his North Carolina farm he was grinding out verses, more autobiography and strumming his old guitar. Prairie Bard Sandburg cheerfully prophesied: "I'll die propped up in bed, trying to do a poem about America...
Judy's forest of switchboard wires would seem to promise wacky complications and entangling alliances in all five boroughs, with some of the offbeat sassiness of an On the Town. But despite bookies posing as musicians, and a dentist who yearns to write songs, despite visits to penthouses and nightclubs, and a rollicking subway ride, Bells Are Ringing-even in its liveliest dancing-sticks to Broadway, Broadway, all evening long...