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January. In Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the fighting phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets." February. In Providence, State Labor Director William L. Connolly reached for an aspirin, swallowed a pill for his wife's petunia plant instead, grew panicky, was calmed by an agricultural expert who informed him that he had merely taken the equivalent of 18 bushels of horse manure and had nothing to worry about...
...lost a high heel from one slipper. Shrill words would be spoken before dawn. At least one famous actor, writer or politician would get punched in the nose, and automobiles would collide with an abandon almost forgotten during the stodgy years of gas rationing. The morning-after consumption of aspirin, raw egg and Worcestershire sauce would rise again in proof of man's infinite capacity for hope...
...bitten, the doctors began running through the usual drugs. But 45 minutes after the injection of calcium gluconate, the boy still cried out with pain. After another shot he seemed to get worse. A slow injection of salt and sugar was no help; pentobarbital sodium, codeine and Aspirin left him still twitching on the bed. Pentobarbital sodium was tried again, to no effect...
Eleven years and many aspirin tablets later, Southworth again took over the Cards. By then he had won a personal battle with the bottle, and had learned to handle men-partly through teaching his son, Billy, to play ball...
...soothing a patient, if the patient follows orders-since the deadly dose is some 15 times the sleeping dose. They consider most "accidental" barbiturate deaths as suicide, and point out that people who really want to commit suicide could do it almost as easily with too much aspirin or by eating a lot of toothpaste-certain kinds...