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...since the High Priests of Thebes labored lovingly over the corpses of Libyan Pharaohs has there been such big news in the embalming business. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Carlos José Rodriguez Fernández, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Preservation | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Tooth & Nail. In Rapid City, S. Dak., John Spalla, who said he had just wanted to save on dentist bills, was charged with assault & battery after he tied his wife's hands behind her, pried open her mouth with a screwdriver, and tried to pull her teeth with a pair of pliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...default. Chaves has become boss of one of the Americas' most complete dictatorships. After the presidency had changed hands four times in a year, Chaves, a self-educated lawyer and lifelong politico, engineered a coup that put bumbling Dr. Felipe Molas López, a 50-year-old dentist, in power in 1949. But even Don Federico could not stand the dentist long; in another coup, he installed himself as President. That was enough coups, he decided; next year he had himself elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Winner & Still President | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...three people in the U.S. have no dentist, said Public Health Service Consultant Frank F. Law; there are 700 million undrilled cavities, 300 million teeth that need to be pulled, and not nearly enough dentists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...faith seriously. She was active in charity work, made generous gifts to Catholic organizations. Her personal life was not too happy. Her Catholic marriage to Trumpeter Jimmy Zito in 1947 ended after a few months. Later, when she fell in love with Dr. John Duzik, a Beverly Hills dentist, the church refused an annulment of the first marriage. In 1949, Dr. Duzik died in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, a Catholic hospital run by the Sisters of Charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nun Next Door | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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