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Fearful on the eve of his 96th birthday lest two front teeth would have to be extracted because he bit a cherry pit four years ago, John D. Rockefeller Sr. visited his dentist. Reassured to learn that his 19 teeth were all sound, he quietly celebrated his birthday on his 500-acre estate near Lakewood, N. J. Biggest Rockefeller birthday present was $5,000,000 in cash representing the face value of his insurance policies. The money was returned to him because he had outlived the actuarial tables, which do not go above...
Nothing particular happened until June 21 when Brother Al got a toothache. He stood the pain for four days, then lanced the abscessed tooth himself with the aid of radio instructions from a local dentist. The Key Brothers' next difficulty came on June 25 when they were warned that the right-hand landing wheel had gradually deflated, making an eventual landing precarious...
...TIME, May 27, Miscellany, you tell of Dentist Klein performing a Caesarean operation on his lady guppy. No ichthyologist would call this the first. This is a common occurrence in domesticated tropical fish. About five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...
...odds were a mistake. The stocky, 38-year-old Birmingham dentist who was his opponent in the final won the championship in 1927. An awkward stylist who plays his shots like a dub trying to cure a slice, with his left foot far in front of him, William Tweddell was able enough last week to finish the morning round only three down. In the afternoon Little kept him waiting at the tee and then out of embarrassment at this faux pas began to play sloppy golf. The doctor started creeping up and at the 30th hole, the match was even...