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...friend Paul Hoffman. As a result, he would go right on being a European expert-but this time at home in Pasadena, Calif., center of year-round marbles, and a place where Johnny's three-year-old brother, Peter, could be cured of the un-American habit of speaking better French than English...
Thumb-sucking is a hotly controversial subject. Most psychologists believe (and most dentists strongly disagree) that the danger of mental damage in breaking a child of the habit is greater than the danger of dental damage from allowing it. The experts' quarrel leaves the mother in a dilemma...
...July Journal of the American Dental Association, Dentist Edward S. Mack of San Francisco puts in a strong case for the do-something-about-it school. He admits that interfering with the habit causes frustration. But, he argues, so does toilet training or teaching a child not to lie and steal. "Compared to the intensity of frustration involved in [these] necessary frustrations," says Dr. Mack, "the correction of thumb-sucking hardly bears mentioning . . . And . . . this habit . . . produces a penalty of subsequent deformity out of all proportion to the crime." Besides pushing the teeth out of place, he says, thumb-sucking...
Heroin Hunting. The most startling description of the addict's New York came from a talented 25-year-old, who had made up to $245 a week as a musician, composer and arranger, but had turned to prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...
...Decided that while yearly federal aid for hard-up medical schools would be bad (it might be habit-forming), the Government could properly help out with lump sums for construction programs...