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...compact new sun lamp, combining warming infrared and tanning ultraviolet rays, that needs no reflector, can be plugged into any electric outlet...
Died. Dr. Frank Eugene Lutz, 64, since 1921 the American Museum of Natural History's Curator of Entomology; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Lutz gathered some 2,000,000 specimens of insects for his museum, discovered:1) that insects respond to ultraviolet light beyond human vision, can thus be trapped if harmful; 2) that the male cricket pitches his woo at the third D above high...
Many experienced dermatologists last week read Dr. Straumfjord's claims with an interest tempered with skepticism. Most of them have fought acne with vaccine injections, soaps, yeast, X rays, ultraviolet rays, lectures against picking, antiseptics, astringents, medicated creams, diets, vitamins, hormones, encouragement. They have seen one case yield to X rays, another resist. To them acne is still one of medicine's most baffling mysteries...
...most valuable researches were still Steenbock's. His ultraviolet-lamp irradiation process was sold to 250 companies for enriching milk, bread, animal feed, drugs, many another edible. (The conscientious Foundation refused to let chewing gum be irradiated, on the ground that it would do gum-chewers no good...
When a small Los Angeles firm, Vitamin Technologists, Inc., began to irradiate in defiance of Wisconsin's patents, the Foundation sued. The Circuit Court pointed out that the patents were so sweeping that a farmer who let his alfalfa lie under the sun's ultraviolet rays would be an "infringer." The Court ruled that Dr. Steenbock's finding, though it put the world greatly in his debt, was a "discovery," not a patentable invention. The Foundation will appeal to the Supreme Court...