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...Hollywood, Bela Lugosi, who once spooked moviegoers as Dracula and assorted fiends and zombie doctors, was sent to a state hospital as a drug addict. Now 72, and looking as poorly as any makeup man ever painted him. Lugosi asked to be committed, admitting he had been using narcotics for 20 years. "I don't have a dime left," he said. "I am dependent on my friends for food...
Literature abounds with testimonials by narcotics addicts-De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire, Cocteau-to the beauties of the neverland to which their favorite dope has transported them. Most medical textbooks have copied each other's statements that the effect of narcotics is uniformly pleasant. But most people who try a couple of shots out of curiosity find the effects (including nausea and vomiting) so unpleasant that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only...
...unwinding is to travel by train, using the time to write fiction. In his first published novel, I and Claudie (1951), the adventures of two fun-loving Texas hoboes, Anderson gave Bobby Cutler a credit for "encouragement." A poker player, Anderson recently wrote a short story about a poker addict who, abhorring the status quo ante, always ups it. By driving for decisions and following them up with action, Bobby Cutler has raised the NSC's ante of ability. Noting that he had overstayed his promised tour of duty by nine months, Cutler, 59, last week asked President Eisenhower...
...Esme is a slim, wistful artist's model, and a heroin addict. In her lost, grieving face, Wyatt finds inspiration for his forged Madonnas...
...There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self...