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Your recent news item about itinerant dentists [TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt has an important piece of news to give out, he likes to have as many Washington correspondents as possible at press conference. Last week, the biggest press conference since the President announced his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court was on hand when he started out by saying that he knew exactly what the newspapermen wanted to ask and was prepared to answer for quotation. Without more ado, the President read a prepared statement...
With the refreshing news from yesterday's practice that over a hundred men have turned out for the Freshman squad comes the realization that Harvard football is on the road back. The revival which is indicated by this increase in the number of candidates over the turnout of the previous Freshman class is particularly encouraging, not only because it shows that more students are availing themselves of the chance to use the University's excellent facilities for play, but also it demonstrates how the game, more than in recent years, has captured the imagination of the undergraduate body...
...made news principally since 1933 by questions that have arisen in connection with the operation of his automobile. Last year his application for renewal of a driver's license was turned down, only to be granted later. Then in the summer he emerged with a broken nose from one wreck and shortly afterwards dented the back of another...
...such that his pastors burden him with as little of it as possible. .In recent years churchmen have entered the more fruitful fields of economics and sociology, which to a great extent were tilled before the clergy arrived. Twice last week this new sociological trend of religion made news...