Word: doped
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...track tout. The cost can be incredibly high: as much as $125 a year for some 3,000 words a week-an annual total well below the word count in one average issue of the New York Times (185,000). Yet so insatiable is the public appetite for inside dope that in the few decades since its birth, the newsletter has flourished to become U.S. journalism's fastest-moving institution...
Died. Juanita Hansen, 66, blonde heroine of the silent screen's daredevil thriller serials, who was dragged from Hollywood's heights by dope addiction, later broke the habit and toured the country lecturing on the evils of narcotics, eventually settled down as a Southern Pacific train dispatcher; of a heart attack; in West Hollywood, Calif...
Life for Shane O'Neill, 42, only surviving son of Eugene O'Neill, has been a long day's journey into penury by way of prisons and public hospitals (for dope addiction). Disinherited by the father who had long ignored him, and unemployed since his collaboration on the 1959 bestseller, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill, the famed playwright's son was arraigned last week on his saddest charge yet: neglect of his four children. After finding not a single bed in the ramshackle Point Pleasant, N.J., home...
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...without good reason that Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, dope addict though he was, was called The Inflexible, and never did he have greater need of his stubbornness than when he marched on Persia. For 116 days the wily Shah of Persia dodged and retreated, laying waste the land as he did. But finally the two hosts met near the town of Caldiran in what is now eastern Turkey. The Ottoman army had guns, the Persians did not; and at the end of that battle in 1514, 25,000 Persian horsemen lay dead. For the Shah, the defeat...