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...seeing the three "big names" flop. Down & out in the first round went favored Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan, who had beaten the pros several times. Next day finished off the other two: Bud Ward, winner of the last U.S. Amateur in 1941, and out-of-practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic-strip name, Smiley...
...Teeth. At London's St. Mary's Hospital, a group of dentists and a distinguished colleague, Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming, tried penicillin lozenges for mouth infections. In a number of cases, reported Dentist E. Wilfred Fish in the Journal of the American Dental Association, abscessed teeth and gums cleared up nicely; penicillin also was helpful in an operation in which two infected teeth were extracted and replanted in the same sockets...
...dentist strapped Sidney Joseph Perelman into the chair with six towels and forced his jaws apart with a blunt instrument. "Now then, where are his X rays?" he asked the nurse. "We haven't any," she said. "This is the first time he's been here." "Well, bring me any X rays," barked the dentist; "when you've seen one tooth you've seen them...
Firing a burst of compressed air down Perelman's gullet, the dentist chortled:"Well, friend, you may as well know the worst. These are the teeth of an 80-year-old man. . . . Who put those [inlays] in - a steamfitter? . . . Miss Smedley, how many times have I told you not to count the patient's money in front of him? Take the wallet outside and go through it there. . . . H'm'm'm, a cleft palate. . . . While we're at it, I think we'd better tear out those lowers with a jackhammer...
...dentist took up a hypodermic syringe "of the type used on brewery horses," and sank it in Author Perelman's gum. Then, he "snatched up his drill, took a firm purchase on my hair and teed off. . . Two thin wisps of smoke circled up ward slowly from my ears . . . [my] screams . . . rattled the windows. . . . 'Don't be afraid now,' chuckled the dentist, patting "the mass of protoplasm" that had once been a man; 'this won't hurt...