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...modern Army officers have a background like Captain Tom Crocker. When his father died, Tom quit school at 17 and joined the Navy. After World War I he got a job as clerk in a Detroit police court and began to drink. First an alcoholic, then a dope addict, he lost his job, took to forgery, was arrested and finally committed to an insane asylum. Discharged at last, he began the same thing all over again. One night in a Detroit park, he recalls, "I got the jimmies-the D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where he had been given...
...craving for alcohol has a physiological or biochemical basis that is not generally understood; his reaction to a given quantity of alcohol is violently different from that of the normal individual: "As long as we deal with the average man we will fail to encounter an alcoholic addict because the average man doesn't become addicted." This physiological basis seems to be inherited: investigators report that alcoholism is 74 times as common a cause of psychoses among men of Irish descent as among those of Jewish descent...
...History's most talkative addict was Thomas De Quincey (The Confessions of an English Opium Eater), who took laudanum (like morphine, derived from opium). He yielded to the habit four times in 40 years, finally cured himself by tapering off, the most painful cure...
...Sierra Nevadas will unfold countless new types of ski runs before the eyes of the Harvard parallel slat addict, much-traveled members of the Crimson ski team aver. He will be confronted with fabulously long runs, deep snow, steeper grades, and, in many instances, frustrating and maniacally devised slalom courses marked by 150 pines...
...Hampshire's White Mountain eastern slope region, though long and grueling to reach by train, is the best skiing area in the East for the car owner. Twenty-five road miles are lined with every type of skiing for every type of waxed hickory addict...