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There was evidence last week of the palest smidgen of truth in what he said. It appeared that Frankie was unable to square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite...
...assayer was all set for speedy Senate confirmation when anonymous letters began to trickle into Washington. All called attention to his prominent patient. New York's Republican Irving Ives suggested that the good dentist be looked into, after which point Dr. Singer announced that he was a very sick man, and didn't any longer want the job. Quietly, Harry Truman withdrew the nomination...
...Many dentists have some such specialty as pulling teeth or straightening them. Washington Dentist Raymond Herndon, 36, specializes in jittery patients. More than half of the patients he treats are the kind that other dentists dread: alcoholics, "uncooperative" children, adults with neuroses or psychoses, people who begin to squirm at the sound of the drill...
...advantage, Herndon says, is the time saved. For a neurotic schoolteacher, he did 42 fillings in three hours. A Washington business woman, who was just in a hurry, had ten teeth filled and five pulled during one appointment. The day may come eventually, thinks Dentist Herndon, when all dentistry will be done on unconscious patients...
Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received 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...