Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Someday, perhaps, medical science will equip us all with permanent false teeth that can be installed at birth and that will last throughout our lives, remaining as shiny and sturdy as ever. When that day arrives the Colgate people will have to leave chlorophyll to the plants, and the dentist, perhaps the least enjoyed appendage of modern civilization, will at last go the way of the alchemist...
...George worked his way through high school (taking a year off to teach grade school), and toyed with the idea of becoming a dentist. But the drill-and-chisel profession lost a recruit when Judge U. V. Whipple, an orator of local renown, failed to show up for a Masonic convention on the Methodist camp grounds in Preston. Someone suggested that 16-year-old Walter George, the best high-school orator in those parts, stand in for the missing speaker. George was willing, spent 30 minutes preparing himself, then delivered a rousing 40-minute oration on the duties...
...Planned, in the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, to reopen the case of ex-Army Dentist Irving Peress, the chief bone of contention in last year's Army-McCarthy hearings...
...that Palmer enjoyed most came from Frederick Emerson Peters, who is a fabulous impersonator and confidence man. Recently, Palmer received a letter from Peters that was sent from a cell in the Lorton, Va. penitentiary. Peters wrote that he had read the TIME story about Palmer in the prison dentist's office, recalled that he had once met Palmer long ago, and sent him a $50 check for the project...
...this will do to musical taste is not clear; some think it will freeze on presold "great" classics, others that it will incline to spectacular moderns. But the important thing is that people who used to take in a live concert about as rarely as they went to the dentist are now daily exposed to good music in all its detail...