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...every two men will have lost all his teeth or will be suffering from a disease of the gums or jawbone. For the toothless unfortunates, Dentists Stanley ]. Behrman and George F. Egan described a new method of locking false teeth in place with magnets. Protected by plastic and tantalum mesh, the magnets are imbedded in the jawbone and lock tight against similar magnets built into the denture...
...president of Chicago's Meyercord Co., Leonard Henry Knopf, 52, is the world's decalcomania*king. Housewives use plastic or paper decals to decorate kitchen and nursery walls. Small fry, who call decals "cockomamies," paste them on their arms to simulate tattoos. Businessmen use them in hundreds of ways: for trademarks on vending machines, store windows and products; for instructions on tractors, life rafts and planes (a 6-29 requires 2,700 decals); for tax stamps on cigarette packages. Even casketmakers...
Last week Decalcomaniac Knopf, who calls his product "painting by way of the printing press," offered a new plastic decal that looks like expensive wood. A dozen furniture makers already plan to use the new decals in their winter lines...
Middleweight Sugar Ray Robinson hired a prominent plastic surgeon to remove scar tissue from his brow and pretty up his nose. Manhattan sportwriters concluded that he was getting ready to retire from the ring...
...drugstores also sell drugs. They sell quite a lot of drugs. More than twelve times every second - almost 400 million times a year - some worried citizen peers down the length of one of the nation's 50,000 drugstores - past the lunch counter, the toys, the plastic raincoats, the hair lotions and tooth powders - and finally catches sight of the little glass booth marked "Prescriptions." To the pharmacist in the booth he hands a slip of paper marked with the magical device, "Ŗ" the name of a drug and a few cabalistic symbols squiggled in abbreviated Latin...