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Dealer Hayden demonstrated a Stanley bath brush, a man's curved hair brush ("if your husband can use it, it proves he hasn't a flat head") and Stanley combs which "never go to the dentist, because their teeth stay in." In 45 minutes, she showed 50 different items, took in $43 in orders-more than enough to earn a set of table knives for her hostess, and a commission of about $14 for herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATION: The Brush Man | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...family had once been rich, though now she had to roll back the parlor rug and teach the neighbors' children when she wasn't brought to bed with her own (she also bore three sons and another daughter who died in infancy). Father Nathaniel was a dentist, a kindly potterer and whittler who never learned how to stand up to his energetic womenfolk. By any standards of the day, his daughters made their marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Wives & a Spinster | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...immigrants included Latvians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs and Russians. There were 21 doctors, a woman dentist, six nurses, a music teacher, a singer, a journalist and an internationally known entomologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Highly Gratifying | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

March. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he got a letter from a dentist: "I would like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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