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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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...likelihood, Scarbeck told the Reds little of real value. Although he could read files up to those classified as secret, top-secret documents were inaccessible to him. U.S. security officers say his informing was largely limited to casually acquired, uncertain dope and did not include information on current political maneuvers or military secrets. Still, Scarbeck's disclosures cannot be passed over too lightly, since the bulk of espionage is the accumulation of many bits and pieces, such as those that he furnished, in a total picture of enemy operations. Scheduled to go before a federal grand jury this week...
...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...