Sun Armor

Allan Lindsay, a 3-year-old New Orleans boy, has a rare skin disease called xeroderma pigmentosum. The color cells in his skin are too numerous and too near the surface. When the sunlight strikes them they become greatly inflamed and cause painful ulcers. His face is the shrunken visage of an old man. The nurses at the Charity Hospital call him " Grandpop." The disease is fatal unless the sun can be kept away from the skin. A New York electrical engineer devised a protective armor to filter the sun's rays so that only those milder than the red of the spectrum can reach the lad's body.