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...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Three weeks ago, a prosperous Salisbury, Mo. dentist, Dr. H. H. Brummall, wrote to his fellow Missourian Harry Truman, suggesting that he withdraw from the presidential race. The reply, which was released to the press last week, was not only indicative of the state of the President's mind but also characteristic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Read Your Letter | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler was dead again, a week after a refugee reported seeing him in Silesia (with a triangular mustache). His onetime dentist said, after studying a dental journal, that he was practically positive the Russians had Hitler's jawbone in custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Lowdown | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...sleeps only three or four hours a night, has never had an operation or been seriously ill. He has all of his own teeth, although friends suspect that when he recently insisted on being driven into Manhattan without telling anyone where he was going, he went to a dentist to have a tooth pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Perfectionist | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...society"). Columbia Law Professor Karl Llewellyn thought that the professional schools should not neglect the bottom 90% for the sake of the top 10%. Said he: "In the average town of 100,000, trying to find a good lawyer is as difficult as trying to find a good dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How High Is Up? | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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