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...only dentist in Nome, Alaska calls himself "the best dentist on Front Street and President and Secretary of the Nome Dental Society." He is tall, husky, pink-cheeked Dr. Maxwell Raymond Kennedy, 26. Last week he went home for a visit in Galesburg, Ill., telling his own success story of dental triumph among Nome's 1,500 prospectors, Eskimos, saloonkeepers, trappers and government officials. He also went home to get his teeth fixed-there is no other dentist within 560 miles of Nome...
...Galesburg's Knox College he had such fun with firecrackers that he was temporarily expelled. He finally finished three years' work, progressed to Northwestern University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...
...Wallace Hotel's new frame building on Front Street at $1,380 a year. The rooms were "all painted up white and very classy." The windows looked out on the Bering Sea. Shortly the sea surged up and swept away the drugstore next door, almost removed the dentist's office...
...upper left jaw. Dr. Erdmann went along. "The yacht Oneida, owned by the late E. C. Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning. It was done in the salon of the yacht, the President sitting upon a chair. ... On this occasion we put our aprons over our street clothes...
Tooth decay is commonest in the North, but relatively quite rare in the South. This latitudinal dental mystery was revealed last week in the American Journal of Public Health, by Dentist Bion R. East of Columbia University. Like most other dentists, Dr. East readily admits that nobody knows the basic cause of tooth decay, hence his geographic phenomenon contradicts no other widely held medical beliefs on tooth decay...