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...withdrawn from a vein in the arm, mixed with citrate to prevent clotting. The citrated blood is passed through a rubber tube into a small, round quartz and steel irradiation chamber. Against the quartz window the doctor fits a lamp, like a flashlight, which emanates ultraviolet rays. An automatic shutter turns the lamp off every few seconds to prevent over-irradiation. Length of irradiation varies from nine to 14 seconds, depending upon the severity of the infection. Once the blood is delicately irradiated, it is returned immediately to the same vein...
...Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front...
...traditional ride in the middle of the eleventh century in the English town of Coventry. Her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lord of Coventry, agreed to remit his oppressive taxation on the town if Lady Godiva would ride the streets naked. Ordering all persons within doors behind closed shutters, the Lady mounted a white charger and ambled through, the crooked streets, clothed only in her long hair. But through one shutter peeked an itchy little tailor. Lady Godiva spotted him but before she could reprove him, a greater punishment was meted out. Peeping Tom was stricken blind...
Riggs, enthusiastic over the scientific aspects of his machine, described how the process works. When a revolver inounted on a table is fired, it severs a wire carrying a current, thus tripping a high-power 7500 volt condenser. As the bullet passes the open shutter of an ordinary Kodak, the tremendous electrical discharge causes a spark of approximately 900,000 candlepower to flash for 1-1,000,000 to 1-1,500,00 of a second. It is the inconceivable brevity of the flash and the enormous voltage released suddenly by the condenser that make possible such a high-speed...
...opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed the thief, helped him skim the cream after he jimmied...