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Around Caswell County, N.C., Mack Ingram, 44, was known as a "good" Negro. He had raised nine children, saved enough to buy his own mule and tools, and even a ramshackle jalopy. He was proud that he rented his land instead of sharecropping...
...July Journal of the American Dental Association, Dentist Edward S. Mack of San Francisco puts in a strong case for the do-something-about-it school. He admits that interfering with the habit causes frustration. But, he argues, so does toilet training or teaching a child not to lie and steal. "Compared to the intensity of frustration involved in [these] necessary frustrations," says Dr. Mack, "the correction of thumb-sucking hardly bears mentioning . . . And . . . this habit . . . produces a penalty of subsequent deformity out of all proportion to the crime." Besides pushing the teeth out of place, he says, thumb-sucking...
...Dentist Mack goes more than halfway to meet the psychologists: psychological treatment should come first, he says, and local treatment should be tried only if thumb-sucking still persists. Nagging the child, he says, painting the thumb with ill-tasting medicines, guards, gloves and closed sleeves are not good. Neither are plates and bars which the child can remove from his mouth...
...Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers over 3½: the nonremovable "hay rake" (see cut), cemented to the child's teeth. This, he concedes, "has the double misfortune of looking vicious and being called by [a] distasteful name." But it has the double virtue, he argues, of keeping the thumb out and the tongue back. (Many children, denied the joy of thumbsucking, seek solace in pushing the tongue against the front teeth.) The hay rake, says Dr. Mack, is always successful within a few months, and most young patients bear no grudge against the man who installs...
...contract was all signed, Mack told SEC. All he needed was SEC approval. (Since SEC had ordered Electric Bond & Share to get rid of N.P. & L. under the Public Utility Holding Company Act, chances were good that SEC would approve.) While he was in a buying mood, Mack also made an offer to individual holders of N.P. & L. stock. He would buy their stock at 45^ a share (10? more than its book value). That was the price he was paying Electric Bond & Share for its holdings. Thus, those who had rushed to buy on Winchell...