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...tooth powder had been tested first in the laboratory by Dr. Helmut A. Zander of Tufts College Dental School. Then schoolchildren in Walpole, Mass, were used as human guinea pigs. In the first year, 216 children at the Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...
...Zander also found that only six out of almost 4,500 subjects later tested were sensitive to the penicillin powder or became sensitive to penicillin after using it. But many doctors and dentists were still not convinced that it was a good idea to use penicillin indiscriminately in the mouth. If there were no unfavorable reactions, they argued, it must be because the penicillin was immediately flushed out of the mouth-in which case it would have little or no effect on tooth decay, either. There was still a lot to be said for a tooth cleanser consisting of nine...
...president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Roy E. Larsen, president of Time Inc.; Byron Gray, president of International Shoe Co.; H. Leslie Atlass, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; Joseph Hazen, vice president of Warner Bros. Also represented is labor by A.F. of L.'s Arnold Zander, C.I.O.'s Richard Deveraux...
...Swiss arrested a Lieut. Colonel Hans Trueb, who was said to have confessed that he was spying for "a certain foreign power." Last July one Alfred Zander, a little man with big ambitions, who headed The League of Faithful Confederates, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, and last month a second would-be Führer named Robert Tobler, whose party is called the National Front, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Last week the Swiss Government warned its citizens to disregard any purported "official" orders not to resist invaders: Switzerland would resist any invader...
...mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley Schumpf ate too much peanut butter Wednesday...