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...jowl, there would be enough for 15 infantry divisions. (Last year alone, the Army Dental Corps drilled and filled 18,000,000 cavities.) The Dental Corps is still so hard worked that some stations have three eight-hour dental shifts a day and appointments for 4 a.m. are not uncommon...
Today "it takes a millionaire with uncommon staying power to set up a new daily in any city over 200,000"-and there are not many Marshall Fields...
...garments fashioned from such material have revolutionized the traditional costume of many a district. Where peasant women from time immemorial have clung to black & white, they now dress in yellow, green, red or blue. It is not uncommon to see a girl dressed in a British Army shirt, a yellow parachute skirt...
...with a ghost-pale savage named Dulipé, who he claimed was Jack Fawcett's son by a Kurikuro Indian woman. Last week a picture of Morel and Dulipé (see cut) reached the U.S. As photographed, Dulipé has all the characteristics of an albino, a not uncommon freak among South American Indians...
...like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...