Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Barney, 37 and greying, turned up in the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan to report himself a drug addict. It started, said he, when he was in a Guadalcanal hospital, with shock and malaria. A couple of his hospital corpsmen friends had given him dope (not part of the services' regular malaria therapy, but a rare resort in cases of extreme migraine). As months went by, his headaches recurred; somehow (perhaps with forged prescriptions), Barney got more dope. Says he: "I got in over my head...
...Part Cure. The Lexington cure is two-part: 1) withdrawal of the drug, accomplished in three days, during which the patient's agony is mitigated by less harmful dope; 2) the psychological phase -finding out what caused the patient to go on the hop, and removing the cause. If phase No. 2 is not successfully completed, relapse is almost certain (29% of Lexington's present patients are repeaters). Volunteers may leave whenever they choose, but are told that if they leave before six months, they have wasted their time...
From the Crimson's first opponent this year, Connecticut, comes a cautiously worded spate of pre-season dope. "Head Coach J. O. Christian has used several backfield combinations during the past week in an effort to assemble his most effective unit for the opener against Harvard." This notably tough team, is made tougher by the presence of a Mr. Trojanowski, who played fullback for Connecticut Huskies last year, and was at season's end, conceded to be one of the finer backs in New England. So what do they say about him? "Wall Trojanokski is set for a starting role...
Died. Bertram M. Campbell, 60, British-born Wall Street customer's man who in 1938 was falsely convicted of forgery and sent to Sing Sing, was cleared of all charges (when a dope-peddling professional forger finally confessed) after 40 months of unjust imprisonment; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Freeport...
...force of a slug from an automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope addiction, voyeurism and fornication. A round dozen minor players help him out with great efficiency- not to mention Miss Bacall, who is like an adolescent cougar...