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...first crop of ambidextrous doctor-dentists goes into training this fall. they will emerge five years hence with a sheepskin in each hand, ready to drill a tooth or deliver a baby or to clean Junior's teeth and prescribe for his measles in one visit. The new Harvard School of Dental Medicine hopes that its versatile alumni will be biologically-minded dentists, better equipped to battle an unfamiliar tooth than the men whose training emphasized the theory and use of the drill. whether this can be accomplished by simply adding the ready-made Medical school curriculum to that...
...other two changes deal directly with the number of courses required of a man wishing to streamline his road to the magical sheepskin. Whereas University Hall used to slap on an extra course for the privilege, it now declares that not only will a man take the same number of courses as the four-year student, but he will shift one course to the Summer School season. This means taking 14 in three College years, and one in Summer School, instead of 16 in all, as formerly required...
...them from General Electric. In developing the suits, a Flying Fortress crew last winter flew 10,000 feet up over Alaska in -30° weather, dressed only in long woolen underwear through which electrical coils were woven. The new suits are lighter and cheaper than the sheepskin garments now used, and they leave a flier nimbler at his controls and guns. Heat can be adjusted for outside temperatures from 70° to -60°, can be increased to protect injured fliers from shock and pneumonia. General Electric analyzed the electrically heated uniform of a German flier shot down over England...
...room clerk at the Willard Hotel looked up. Frowning down on him was a giant of a man clad in a sheepskin coat, faded polka-dot shirt, blue denim overalls, high laced boots, and a tired tan hat. The man asked for a room. The clerk coughed politely and said they were full up. The old mari turned away. "I been saving a year for this trip," he said, "and I did kinda want to stay where 'H. A. W.'* put up." Washington soon found out why Frank Edward Gimlett, 75, oldtime prospector from Salida, Colo...
...Sabrinas this season found themselves with practically all of their front line and a full quartet of backs from the disappointing 1939 eleven gone via the sheepskin route. Nine lettermen were on hand, four of whom were linemen. Captain and tackle Wyatt Smythe, brother of end Bill Smythe, and guards Pete Craft and Gene Hubbard, the latter of whom spent most of last season on the bench, are the returning lettermen...