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...Griffin took Oxsoralen, a drug sometimes administered to victims of vitiligo, a disease that produces milk-white patches on the skin. The drug makes the skin extraordinarily sensitive to ultraviolet rays; under sunlamp or sunlight exposure, the skin turns a deep brown. * From Hughes's poem "Dream Variations...
...effect on his friends was doubled when he told them casually that he had received an A in the course. In point of fact FitzJames had been holed up in a miserable rented room in Boston, with a sunlamp and all the reading assignment including the optional books, and had been working like a dog for two weeks...
...effect on his friends was doubled when he told them casually that he had received an A in the course. In point of fact FitzJames had been holed up in a miserable rented room in Boston, with a sunlamp and all the reading assignment including the optional books, and had been working like a dog for two weeks...
Symptoms: "Pain in the shoulder region, usually going down the upper arm as far as the elbow, and frequently . . . pain or tingling or both in the palm and fingers." Treatment: sunlamp irradiation, anesthetic massage...
...which had duly been filed under the name of Charles Erwin Wilson, then executive vice president of General Motors.* Charlie Wilson was known to almost no one except G.E. men. In his presidential office on the 45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy of Edgar A. Guest's It Couldn't Be Done ("and he did it"); a television set. He took a plaster bust of Lincoln with him to his Washington office...