Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Were the atrocity stories supposed to help the sale of war bonds? All over the U.S., plain citizens thought so (bond sales zoomed, even doubled for several days after publication). Said Albuquerque's Dr. V. H. Spensley, a dentist whose son died in a Jap prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...
Trail Blazer. In West New Brighton, N.Y., Thomas Calabori, who used to make dental forceps, found himself at last in a dentist's chair. When the dentist reached for a forceps, Calabori jumped from the chair through a closed window, dropped ten feet to the sidewalk, persuaded the dentist that the tooth no longer hurt, succeeded in canceling the appointment...
...body had been very positively identified. Discovered in Schiller Park by Chicago police, the murdered, badly burned corpse was little more than a skeleton, but a Negro woman was certain it was her missing husband. A dentist was equally certain that he recognized the jaw. The woman claimed her husband's insurance...
...make triply sure, the police took the bones to Anthropologist Wilton Marion Krogman of the University of Chicago. The professor measured them, made a few calculations, then surprisingly announced that the woman and the dentist were both wrong: the skeleton was no Negro's but that of a middle-aged white laborer. Shortly afterward the missing Negro turned up alive...
Patrice is as choice a bloom as any in the recent bevy of young sopranos. Only child of a Spokane, Wash., dentist, Patrice made her first splash six years ago when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson...