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...medical discovery that may turn out to be the greatest since penicillin was reported last week in the conservative Journal of the A.M.A.: Chicago researchers have found a way to make immunizing vaccines by subjecting live germs to ultraviolet light.* Their most important vaccine to date is for infantile paralysis in mice. Superior to any previous polio vaccine, it may mean that the day of infantile paralysis is nearly over...
...ultraviolet radiation system for theaters, offering the double advantage of making fluorescent-coated aisles and seats visible and giving the audience an ultraviolet bath...
...departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army may be interested: 1) a searchlight of invisible infrared or ultraviolet light for seeing and signaling at night, 2) a method of broadcasting waves of the same frequency as ordinary sound. Girl. Anne Hagopian, 16, a Manhattan architect's daughter. Small, dark Anne learned her science from books and at Manhattan's swank Brearley School. Like Amber, she is an athlete, musician...
...else has confirmed Lipman's finding, and scientists have remained skeptical. One reason is that most modern physicists believe that cosmic rays and short-wave light rays (particularly ultraviolet) would destroy any life passing through interstellar space. Professor Backman's hypothesis attacks this objection...
Cultural Note. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of an ultraviolet-ray device that 1) makes empty seats in a movie house visible, 2) gives the audience a gentle ultraviolet bath during the show...