Medicine: Galesburg's Bad Boy

The only dentist in Nome, Alaska calls himself "the best dentist on Front Street and President and Secretary of the Nome Dental Society." He is tall, husky, pink-cheeked Dr. Maxwell Raymond Kennedy, 26. Last week he went home for a visit in Galesburg, Ill., telling his own success story of dental triumph among Nome's 1,500 prospectors, Eskimos, saloonkeepers, trappers and government officials. He also went home to get his teeth fixed—there is no other dentist within 560 miles of Nome.

Max Kennedy began as Galesburg's bad boy. At Galesburg's Knox College he had such fun with firecrackers that he was temporarily expelled....

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