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From all accounts, a dentist in Alaska has no time for thumb-twiddling. Young Dr. Maxwell Kennedy of Nome found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...
There was still fighting to be done in Tunisia early this week. Axis remnants straggled toward Cap Bon, the thumb of the Tunisian hand pointing bluntly at Sicily. Some Germans and Italians were already there, and certain prepared defenses had been built. Correspondents spoke of the peninsula as a potential Bataan...
...Rule-of-thumb rationing down the line to the ultimate consumer has resulted in all kinds of inequalities. States with local liquor control compounded the confusion; 13 of the 17 liquor-monopoly states have instituted rationing. Thus the per capita quota runs from a pint a week in Virginia to as much as two quarts a day in Vermont. But, on a national basis, liquormen figure that U.S. stocks of domestic whiskeys (404,000,000 gal.) will last for about three sober, 70% years, leave another year's supply aging for the peace...
...early success was "Tom Thumb," given in 1854, in which Phillips Brooks took the part of the huge princess Glumdalka. Musical burlesques with piano accompaniment were later included in the repertoire, and the first full-fledged operetta was produced in 1882--"Dido and Aeneas." This work, based on the "Aeneid," a work which all the undergraduates had to know cold in those days, included both original and borrowed music and went as far afield as Philadelphia. In 1918, the first show on the modern, grand scale was produced--"Barnum Was Right." The author was Robert E. Sherwood...
...under the government's thumb...