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...atomic X-ray picture on this page (as far as TIME knows, the first published) was taken with radioactive materials formed by the explosion of an atomic bomb. It shows a woman's rayon purse stuffed with feminine necessaries: keys, coins, a bobby pin and a bottle of nail polish. The metal clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth...
...picture proves neither the U.S. nor the Jap contention. But it does prove that the New Mexico bomb, exploding only 100 feet above the ground, left a quarter-mile area covered with materials which were radioactive enough, nine weeks later, to take X-ray pictures...
When one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch Nazi painter, owned to forging seven recently "discovered" Vermeers (TIME, July 30), art experts laughed him off as a nut. They had reason to: the masterpieces had been painstakingly authenticated by them, by chemical, X-ray and infra-red tests...
Another head-shape fallacy was exploded last week by the University of Illinois dental school. Doctors have long supposed that an individual's head shape changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...
...Heller, took shape in Washington. Under it, the Surplus Property Board would : 1 ) sell or rent leftover medical supplies and equipment to communities which could not afford to buy them on the regular market; 2) charge almost nothing - e.g., a dollar a year rent for expensive X-ray apparatus...