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Awarded. To Camera Tycoon George Eastman; the Medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for "Noteworthy and Outstanding Service to the Science of Chemistry and the Profession of Chemistry in America...
Forty times he has been chased by cops for taking part in street demonstrations; 20 strikes have had his help. In Boston he became an anarchist; Mexico converted him to Communism. Onetime editorial assistant to Max Eastman of the late great Masses, three years ago he became editor of the only artistic-radical magazine left in the U. S., the New Masses, in which Jews Without Money appeared serially. He has had two plays produced: Hoboken Blues, Fiesta. Says he: "Both were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre...
...Eastman Kodak...
Influenced by the need of a simpler and less expensive method of taking posture pictures, Norman W. Fradd, Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and M. C. Reed of the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1925, perfected a means by which satisfactory silhouettes were produced. A camera man was obtained from the Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., and the resulting machine was the silhouetteograph...
...Eastman Kodak Company took over the manufacture of the machines and at the present day the silhouetteograph is used in many colleges and schools throughout the country. The equipment used in the taking and developing of the silhouettes consists of a camera, sensitized bromide paper, developer, fixing-bath, and a linen frame. The expense of operating the silhouetteograph, not including the cost of lighting, amounts to about a half a cent for an exposure...