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Zorn's female models were usually anonymous, but they became equally famous. He posed them by the sea or in bed -with snapshot casualness-and etched them in scratchy fishnets of sunlight or lamplight. Zorn's shy nudes found their way into the portfolios of print connoisseurs, and still adorn the paneled shadows of many a club...
...sister and aged mother came to see the beggar who claimed to be their relative. They gave him a good bath and looked him over in the sunlight. Yes, there were the old scars. There was the Kumar's broken tooth, his birthmark and the familiar scales of the family skin disease on his feet. Reluctantly they claimed the beggar as their...
...tube so sensitive that it can detect a match flame at 60 feet in broad daylight. The basic idea of Weisz's gadget is the detection of minute quantities of ultra violet radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation in the far ultraviolet (below 3,000 angstroms*); but an open flame or spark radiates appreciable amounts in that range. Weisz developed a photoelectric adaptation of the Geiger-Miiller counter (usually used for detecting radio activity), which responds to a flame or spark...
...shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
...good measure, Unilever controls the Lipton Tea Co., has exclusive rights to use Bird's Eye frozen-food processes outside the U.S., runs a General Motors agency in the Union of South Africa. At the model town of Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Unilever runs the world's largest private printing press, the world's largest private dock, has built acres of Tudor-style, neatly landscaped cottages for workers. They get a guaranteed wage from Lever, have their children educated by Lever, their doctor bills paid by Lever -and are buried by Lever...