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However he goes about his cure, the addict who finally gives up tobacco will recognize "an accession of high spirits, energy, appetite and sexual potency, with recession of coughing...
...doctor: "I don't want the child exposed to Rossellini. He ran away with the mother of my child. He seems to have a habit of living with mistresses while married to someone else. It has been quoted in the United States Senate that he is a drug addict. . ." From Rome, Rossellini shot off an outraged message to the Los Angeles judge, demanded a chance to counter Lindstrom's "calumnies." The judge gave the Italian director until June 20 or until all the case's evidence is in (whichever is later) to come...
...still only 16 when, by threats and cajolery, she won her parents' reluctant permission to marry Eddie Neale, who was all of 21 and a confirmed narcotics addict. Their routine was to spend $25 for a half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...
Duffer at Harvard. Robinson's father was reluctant to let him go to college, because one of Edwin's older brothers had gone to college to study medicine, and had become, by 29, an addict to his own morphine bottle. Father Robinson at last gave grudging consent for the boy to attend classes at Harvard, though lack of credits made him a "special student...
...York City police picked up the youngest dope addict they had ever found, an eight-year-old Bronx boy, who confessed to smoking marijuana cigarettes. His story led police to a dozen other child addicts (heroin as well as marijuana). In the lower Bronx, the dope users are classed by age as "seniors" (16-18 years), "juniors" (13-15), and "midgets" (11-12). They buy from peddlers who refuse to sell to anyone older than 18 lest he turn out to be a detective. ¶ Sweaters have been bursting into flame all over the country. The phenomenon began about...