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Dean Lyons' prescription: brush the teeth (salt and soda will do for a dentifrice) within "split minutes" after every meal, because sugar left in the mouth changes into acids within half an hour at most. "Carrying toothbrushes around ought to be just as acceptable as carrying combs, lipstick and powder...
Like many an inventor, Custer is quick to brush off all future problems as mere "engineering details." Skeptical Air Force experts are waiting doubtfully for the results of further tests. But Taylorcraft, Inc. already has a channel wing ship on the drawing board...
...gleaming retriever sat quivering with expectancy as the shotguns shattered the stillness of the misty morning in Washington's rainswept Snoqualmie River valley. The first pheasant dropped behind the dog. The second, whirring off into the mist, wheeled at the shot and fell into the brush to one side. The third was brought down just across the river. Then the handler issued a sharp command: "Fetch...
...bird that fell behind him. Gingerly he nuzzled it, rolling the bird a bit so that he could pick it up without crushing it, raced back to his handler and dropped the unruffled pheasant into his outstretched hand. With a nod from his handler, he crashed into the brush and retrieved the second bird...
...think of golf as an old man's game. Well, maybe it is, but now I'm playing golf." However, he said, fishing was still his first love, and for his casting expeditions he had bought a jaunty Tyrol hat, decked out with the traditional chamois brush and silver pins...