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Teeth are an invaluable nuisance. They have to be looked after, and yet the most dentist-conscious nations have the most trouble with their teeth. Dr. Hans H. Neumann, a Columbia University researcher, seems to feel that all civilized man can do about it is to sell his teeth dearly. Dr. Neumann declares with Spartan glumness: "The incidence of toothbrushes in different countries is in inverse proportion to the incidence of sound teeth, and poor oral hygiene is predominant in areas with exceptionally good teeth." (Dr. Neumann was thinking particularly of a sight he saw in Samoa: a native nurse...
...placid little Bavarian village of Konnersreuth last fortnight flocked thousands of men & women and uniformed G.I.s. They came, as people have come for a generation, to witness the strange Good Friday manifestations that have taken place for 25 years upon the body of a peasant woman named Therese Neumann. Each Good Friday (and on about 25 other Fridays through the year), chunky, good-natured Therese has bled from her eyes and the wound in her side, or from the stigmata in her hands and feet, or from all these at once. Eight marks have appeared on her head...
...Good Friday, as the souvenir vendors arranged their wares and a radio crew made ready to pick up Theresa's voice, word spread that something was wrong: Therese Neumann was admitting no one to her bedside, the bleeding had stopped, there was nothing to show...
Having taught in both Europe and in this country, Neumann is thoroughly sold on American education. Because it does not separate the scholar from the man, our education creates a social individual better fitted for leadership and responsibility, he believes...
Amazingly enough, Neumann has found time to write profusely. In 1942, he published a study of revolution and followed it with "Future in Perspective," his account of the turbulent history of the twentieth century. He is currently working with other professors on a cooperative effort on international parties, his contribution being German parties...