Word: sunburn
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...induces a light "sleep state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...
...Suntan oils may cause inflammation at the very time they are protecting the skin against sunburn, warned Dermatologist Wiley M. Sams of Miami. Some ingredients can filter out part of the ultraviolet rays, but simultaneously sensitize the skin to other rays...
Conversely, the same facts indicate that it is unrealistic to talk of breeding humans resistant to sunburn, polio, smallpox, or any non-hereditary defects except in inconsequential numbers, Ingalls said. Although a tendency toward or immunity to certain defects is inherited, the genesis of the defect itself is open to question, he said...
...seen scores of teachers take to show business like ducks to water. Five professors, after mumbling their way through TV scripts, headed straight for courses in speech. Dr. Maurice Sullivan, Johns Hopkins dermatologist, soon caught on to the fact that the best way to talk about sunburn was to surround himself with a bevy of bathing beauties. Dr. Heinz Haber, an expert in space medicine at U.C.L.A., is another case in point: three years ago, when Haber appeared on a Hopkins series, he had only watched TV twice, had never stood before a camera. He did an adequate...
...seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers ... A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons." Appearing near the first anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, this litany for fellow poets, lost youth and loved objects shows again how much the English language will miss its larking balloonman...