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...from Brooklyn bankers, started putting up small houses in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suburb. His carpentering and plastering employes mostly came to work in their automobiles. Mr. Chanin arrived via bicycle. He sold his-$10,000 houses for $13,000; was off on the way to his "56 stories of sunlight...
...London the very Rev. William Ralph ("Gloomy Dean") Inge, author of Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
...Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...
Active, vigorous, fast-moving, the Chanin Brothers have made many a contribution to Manhattan's new midtown skyline. Their Chanin Building "56 Stories of Sunlight" has been completed for only a few months. In April, they bought the Majestic Hotel, Central Park West, between 71st and 72nd streets. Here they will soon begin a 45-story apartment hotel...
Astounding it was to U. S. physicians, patients and therapeutic lamp manufacturers to learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...