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...decided to come ashore a day earlier than originally planned, go direct to Washington instead of stopping off at Gainesville and Warm Springs, Ga., political reporters promptly began to draw conclusions. Reason given by the President was that his infected jaw-from which Commander Arthur H. Yando, White House dentist, extracted a diseased molar last fortnight- was not healing rapidly as it should have. Reason suggested by political reporters- who discarded a new crop of wild rumors that the President was seriously ill-was that the President felt obliged to crack the whip over Congress...
...started Monday evening, kept Franklin Delano Roosevelt awake all night. On Tuesday, Commander Arthur H. Yando, official White House dentist, diagnosed its cause as an abscess in a lower right molar and the President stayed in bed. By Wednesday, Franklin Roosevelt had a temperature and it looked as though the molar would have to be extracted. On Thursday, Commander Yando yanked it out. Friday the President was recuperating. After the weekend, his temperature was normal but the President still felt poorly enough to stay in Washington and rest instead of going to Warm Springs, Ga. for Thanksgiving...
Last week the clever sales manager of Fink-Roselieve Co., a Manhattan concern which sells dentists solutions for developing their little X-ray films, was summarily out of a job. Reason: an intentionally humorous illustrated advertisement which dentists did not think a bit funny when they saw it in last month's Dental Survey and Oral Hygiene. The illustration: a middle-aged dentist holding his pretty office assistant on his lap. The caption: "Look what you can do with the time you save with F-R solutions...
Into the Japanese Navy office in Tokyo trotted a little woman. She laid several pieces of money on the counter as a contribution to Japan's war funds. Said she: "These are Admiral Yonai's teeth." Shocked underlings investigated, found she was the wife of a dentist, had obtained the money by selling gold from the teeth of Navy Minister Matsumasa Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant...
...bandits never saw who fired at them. At the open window of his office, above the bank, wearing his white coat, stood Dentist Frank L. Hardy with a smoking rifle in his hands. He likes to hunt deer, had scored five hits out of six shots...