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Many dentists have some such specialty as pulling teeth or straightening them. Washington Dentist Raymond Herndon, 36, specializes in jittery patients. More than half of the patients he treats are the kind that other dentists dread: alcoholics, "uncooperative" children, adults with neuroses or psychoses, people who begin to squirm at the sound of the drill...
Last week Herndon told the District of Columbia Dental Society how he deals with sufferers from "burr psychosis": he puts them to sleep. He has an anesthetist and two other assistants to help him, and a dental chair that can be converted into an operating table...
...until the Lincoln romanticists were debunked did William Herndon, Lincoln law partner and biographer (with Jessie Weik), get his due. He loved and respects Lincoln, but he insisted on telling what he believed to be the truth: about the illegitimacy of Lincoln's mother; Lincoln's religion, or lack of it; his feeling about his shrewish wife. Herndon's theory was that Mary Todd helped Lincoln to success by driving him from the house to the sanctuary of office and politics. Of course, Mary Todd disliked Herndon intensely, and didn't help when he, trying...
...Glory. Robert Lincoln himself was embittered by Herndon's now-it-can-be-told approach, and reportedly bought the whole shipment of the Herndon book in England to destroy it. Always broke, William Herndon wrote to Collaborator Weik of their book: "I hope it will be success in the money line, particular! The money line is my line & not the glory line. I need the dollars. Glory may go to thunder if I get the dimes & this you ought to know...
Mary sent this clerkly lover packing, married Jesse Vineyard, also a lawyer, and bore five children. It was not until after Lincoln's death, in pungent letters to W. H. Herndon, an early Lincoln biographer, that she told why she had refused Lincoln. Excerpts: "Really you catechise me in true lawyer style. . . . From his own showing, you perceive that his heart and hand were at my disposal; and I suppose that my feelings were not sufficiently enlisted to have the matter consummated. . . . I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the chain of woman...