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...encourage this inquiring spirit, Dr. Ray joined with 56 "intellectually curious dentists" last week at Baileys Harbor, Wis., for a seminar on dental medicine above the grind-and-fill level. The main idea, says Dr. Ray, is that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position...
...will be a rough grind for the players, but a starting team team should be the end product...
...they were seeking election: External Affairs Minister St. Laurent of Quebec and Agriculture Minister Gardiner of Saskatchewan. St. Laurent, with his bloc of support in powerful Quebec, was still the favorite. But the last Liberal convention in 1919 showed that favorites do not always run to form when the grind of uninterrupted balloting begins...
...Nerves. Even less audibly, a rumor machine began to grind. Rumor is an ancient contrivance of political conventions, but it had seldom been used more efficiently. Whispering stories of rebellions in opposition camps cropped up, stories of desertions, stories of growing Dewey strength. Newsmen, picking each other's brains, sped the rumors along. Philadelphia hotel lobbies, rooms and bars were suddenly filled with startling and unverified stories...
...Louis last month, with the Professional Golfers' Association championship in his grasp, Ben Hogan found the grind just about too hard to take. "I want to die an old man, not a young one," he told reporters. Every golfer in the big time-a businesslike gang that lives a life of tense desperation from hole to hole and tourney to tourney-knew just how he felt. The game had changed from the day of the great Walter Hagen, when a pro played in about 15 tournaments a year. Now it is a year-round business, in which only half...