THE EDITOR'S CORNER

I must tell you a story about Harry Bull.

At a luncheon meeting some time ago, I was pleased to find myself seated next to Dr. Bull. I have rarely enjoyed one of those things more. At the time, I was fresh from a minor triumph at a Boston meeting where I had created what I considered to be a fair amount of interest in a clinic that I presented on how to use an ordinary ten-cent store needle threader in conjunction with elastic thread ligature. The threader and some of its applications were shown in the September issue of JPO. I use it every day to great advantage.

At any rate, I would be the first to say that, although it is a useful gadget, the needle threader won't shake the earth or revolutionize orthodontics. However, I was very pleased when Harry Bull turned to me and said, "Say, you don't happen to have an extra one of those needle threaders handy, do you?" By the greatest of good fortune I did and I was delighted to present him with one.

And then he added, "Mrs. Bull is just going to love that. That sure makes threading needles easier." Yes, it does that too.

I hope that in the interview that Sidney Brandt did for JPO with the Bull Study Group, which is presented in this issue, we have been able to communicate to you the importance that Harry Bull has had as a pioneer clinical orthodontist as an innovator of orthodontic philosophy and technique, and as the inspirational mentor of four orthodontic "sons" who each is making a contribution to orthodontics in the Bull tradition.

If there is an orthodontic Hall of Fame, Harry Bull is a charter member.