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...sunshine vitamin, is the only one which the body is known to synthesize. Produced through exposure to sunlight, it is also found in tuna, herring, cod and halibut liver oils...
...photographs on chemically treated plates. In Manhattan Samuel F. B. Morse, who had just invented the telegraph, was busy on the roof of New York University making new-fangled "sun pictures." Morse's models, faces whitened with powder, had to sit immobile for half an hour in the sunlight, before their likenesses registered in his primitive camera...
...subjects to sit still so long he propped their arms and torsos comfortably on heavy, leather-bound books, canes, chair arms and the edges of tables. Because staring eyes would spoil his pictures, he photographed most people with downcast eyes. Unable to take a picture except in broad sunlight, he constructed "interiors" out of doors with the aid of curtains and furniture...
Chief publicist of the campaign is Chicago's bouncing Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. He has made frequent headlines by running "diet derbies," endorsing sauerkraut juice for health, giving his blood to sick babies, opposing the construction of a skyscraper because it would shut off sunlight from the streets. Since the best way to fight syphilis is to drag it into the open, Dr. Bundesen and aids have pulled down Chicago's syphilis rate in the last three years from...
...free. Partly financed through Stanford University, it is endowed with a $500,000 fund and several special gifts. The building, for which $600,000 was raised, is "supposedly earthquake-proof." The seven floors of stacks in the library tower (a reproduction of the cathedral tower at Salamanca) get no sunlight but are strongly and uniformly illuminated by prismatic globes, to the wonder of Engineer Hoover...