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...Larger use of the X-ray by dentistry and more definite study of dental decay and pyorrhea as manifestations of something going wrong elsewhere in the body are necessary to real progress in the profession. Dental decay and pyorrhea are both preventable diseases and successful treatment of them is dependent on the dentist's assuming a medical as well as a dental attitude in treating his patient...
Many say that Professor Jesse W. M. DuMond of California Institute of Technology is Science's best Mechanic. Fortnight ago international physicists at Rome inspected his multiple crystal spectrometer. Last week at Pasadena the public viewed his stereofluoroscope X-ray device...
...Governor" Cyr countered on Tuesday by telegraphing to Adjutant General Ray Fleming in New Orleans an order to disband the troops. He signed himself "Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard." The order was ignored; Adjutant General Fleming was reported to be in Atlanta. Captain W. J. B. Hawthorne of the Baton Rouge troops said the movement was merely a "test," explained that Tuesday was drill night anyhow...
...baseball, annually played by the pennant winners of the International League and American Association, is bigger than the Big World Series. It is decided by five games out of nine instead of four games out, of seven. In the eighth game of the Little World Series last week, Pitcher Ray Starr of the Rochester (N. Y.) Red Wings struck out nine of the St. Paul Saints, gave only seven hits, won the deciding game for Rochester, now champion for two years...
...insufficient sanitary facilities: "There are three on every floor; there should have been four." Following this scatalog in quick succession come shapely Song-Shouter Ethel Merman (née Zimmerman) who was in Girl-Crazy, funny Willie & Eugene Howard (Willie is also late of Girl Crazy), a splendid dancer named Ray Bolger who has weak knees, sure feet. There is also Everett Marshall, who has brought his fine voice up the street from the Metropolitan Opera House to sing a long rigmarole called "That's Why Darkies Were Born." In the final throes of this extravaganza occurs a glimpse of Heaven...