Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic parts and commercial assignments. No director will hire him, arguing that every TV viewer instantly identifies him as the captain. (Standard greeting: "Hello there, Video, what can we do for you?") His only big TV job since 1955 was a commercial in which he was a dentist boosting Dentyne chewing gum-and the kids doubtless wondered what Captain Video was doing in a white smock...
Died. George S. Long, 74, dentist, Democratic Congressman (since 1953), Brother of Louisiana's onetime Governor Early Long and present Governor Earl Long, uncle of Senator Russell Long; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda...
...been bothered lately by the tooth's roughness. Before the President went on vacation, White House Dentist Lieut. Colonel James Fairchild checked and found the molar split. It was not painful, but there was danger of infection. Fairchild's decision: extraction. As a precaution against excessive bleeding, Ike was taken off the anticoagulant he gets six times a week as a part of his heart therapy. Armed with X rays, Colonel Robert B. Shira, head of Walter Reed's oral-surgery section, yanked the tooth, sent him on his way in 15 minutes...
Farrell tried to get comfortable in a seat like a combination dentist's chair and toilet seat. He wore dark glasses, because bright light beat continuously upon him for the still camera (taking a picture every 75 seconds) and the television camera transmitting uninterruptedly by closed circuit to a nearby viewing room. Electrodes were taped to Farrell's arm and chest: he plugged in the leads so that doctors from the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine could keep watch on his pulse and breathing...
...teacher in the public school system, I am a little horrified that the Cincinnati Dental Society has imposed such a penalty on Dentist Peter Garvin for his column "Your Teeth" [Jan. 27]. As I observe the wholesale neglect of the teeth of children and adults PS well, it would appear that any attention called to the care of teeth would be a step in the proper direction-even at the risk of a little advertising...