Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cure. In Windsor, Ont., charges of drunken driving against Verne Smith, 40, were dismissed after he told the court that he could not have been drunk at the wheel because he had downed only five of his daily quota of 15 beers, explained that he drinks so much that alcohol no longer has any effect...
...Young people of both sexes over 21 would be encouraged to use the cards when buying alcohol," Lee stated...
...novel's hero, Tom Claiborne, is a burnt-out Southern poet who keeps trying to fire up the clinkers of his talent with alcohol. His wife Vera is a moneybags and a ninny with whom he has been out of love for a decade or more. While Vera breeds Red Poll bulls on their Bucks County, Pa., farm, Tom holds a running bull session with, 1) the spirit of his rakehell father, 2) the voice of his moral and artistic conscience (it speaks in italics), 3) the bittersweet memories of expatriate days centering around a Dionysian, suicide-bent poet...
...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...
Deep down at the bottom of its civic heart, Cambridge is truly benevolent. The city exhibits a praiseworthy concern for the spiritual well-being of the Harvard student in its plans for renewing that long lost College institution--the red-blooded, alcohol supported, riot. Of course the entire affair is being planned under the guise of a mass Civil Defense evacuation. But anyone can see through that pretense...