Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tooth & Nail. In Rapid City, S. Dak., John Spalla, who said he had just wanted to save on dentist bills, was charged with assault & battery after he tied his wife's hands behind her, pried open her mouth with a screwdriver, and tried to pull her teeth with a pair of pliers...
...faith seriously. She was active in charity work, made generous gifts to Catholic organizations. Her personal life was not too happy. Her Catholic marriage to Trumpeter Jimmy Zito in 1947 ended after a few months. Later, when she fell in love with Dr. John Duzik, a Beverly Hills dentist, the church refused an annulment of the first marriage. In 1949, Dr. Duzik died in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, a Catholic hospital run by the Sisters of Charity...
According to the 151 to '52 Financial received $14,376, 403.36 from endowment and gifts, a Los Angles dentist and the income droppings...
Died. Dr. Edgar Rudolph Randolph Parker, 80, U.S. chain-store dentist, whose ballyhooing techniques and easy professional ethics boomed his practice but outraged his colleagues; in San Francisco. Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...
Schmitt never thought of selling insurance, but once he seriously considered becoming a dentist. When he entered Pitt in in 1934, Schmitt had that in mind. Soon, however, he was advised that he didn't have the right type of hands to become a dentist; dentists need hands like mechanics and his were judged too small...