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...found a man he hoarsely described as "one of the greatest bar characters in the city." The Marine Corps had sent 79 men in dress uniform to act as an honor guard, had immediately lined them up to form the letters UNO for pictures in the best Elks drill-team tradition...
...quit school, became a soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...
Headwork. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., surgeons found Factory Worker Freda McKeith partially scalped by a whirling drill, hastily sent for the scalp, successfully sewed...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
Actually, even with all the modern improvements and extensions of the pickaxe, oil drilling was a rather precarious venture until this discovery. Contour mapping and geological surveys of suspected petroleum areas have led to reasonably good results, but the tremendous investment required to drill an oil well made a miss really a mile. Leet predicted that his discovery would take a great deal of the gamble out of the oil business...