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Henceforth Britons must pay a shilling (14?) for prescriptions and up to a pound ($2.80) for each trip to the dentist. But, Miss Hornsby-Smith insisted, many of the new changes are not as unreasonable as Labor alleged. For instance, said she, the new ?3 charge for orthopedic shoes (actual cost, ?9) is what most Britons pay for ordinary shoes, and those who must now pay $7 for a wig will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place...
Beverley himself became conscious of a religious urge, and found his way into Dr. Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group." Beverley was not impressed by Leader Buchman, who was "so slick and starched and glossy that he suggested an American dentist: one felt he was always on the point of saying 'Open wide!'" But he fell for the Groupers' open-wide habit of confessing their sins to each other-until the disillusioning day when he himself tried to confess to a young lady-Grouper. With a scream of "Oh, really!" his confessor "shot away like a frightened...
...form, and was inclined to have wild, triumphant daydreams about finding on the street a big bundle of unmarked small bills which he could bury without the knowledge of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As he entered item 6, added items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying softly: "Oh, pshaw, Jim, we've decided to call...
...next night there was more hooliganism. One band of hoodlums appeared on the lawn of a two-family Negro house, planted another cross and set it ablaze. Then they moved on to the home of Negro Dentist James C. Wallace Jr. and blasted away at his house with a shotgun. The next night, a bullet zinged through a window of Dentist W. A. Fingal's house. About the same time, a dynamite bomb exploded in Negro Physician Urbane F. Bass's backyard. Another bomb was tossed in front of the tire shop belonging to Vice President Henry Dyson...
...Stimson, Lovett, Patterson, McCloy and Har-riman-who, though usually Republican, have temporarily answered the call of Government whenever a problem needed a tough, practical administrator to straighten it out. Unlike some of them, Draper is no hereditary economic royalist. Born in New York City, the son of a dentist, he went to New York University (Class of '16), got his start in business at the National City Bank, later switched to Dillon, Read & Co., where his boss was Forrestal...