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Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
Heroin Hunting. The most startling description of the addict's New York came from a talented 25-year-old, who had made up to $245 a week as a musician, composer and arranger, but had turned to prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...
...Avenue in midtown Manhattan; so was the Garden Cafeteria across from Madison Square Garden. "You just walk in ... get a cup of coffee . . . put your money down, pick up the drugs and leave . . ." In a B-G Coffee Shop ". . . it's more of a high-class type of addict ... Cocaine buyers hang around there...
...vast and enjoyable hurdle sprawls between Cambridge and Princeton, N. J. it is a large city with a newly elected mayor tabbed "liapy," a brightly-litteland purchased from some Indiana who didn't own it, and an over-whelming number of pleasurable distractions. The voyaging pigskin addict must pass through that town twice: the voyaging bedonist may never cross the Hudson. It is for both types that the CRIMSON's presents its Hymarx edition of One and The New Yorker, unabashedly aware that the Campus of big city life may slun those used to nothing more confusing than Lloyd Jordan...
...talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...