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Burmese guards understood no English, and let the Russian goons overpower him. The Russians carried him back to his hospital bed, had him shot full of dope, and then, despite hospital protests, insisted on removing him to the Soviet embassy...
...exchange was worried about all the new stockholders it has signed up and the kind of stocks they buy. The exchange increased its advertising budget 25% for a campaign to warn stockholders against tips and rumors, advised: "Hold your money tight when anyone gives you 'the inside dope.' " Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the U.S.'s biggest brokerage house, began to run ads in 210 newspapers entitled "Danger! Inside Tip Ahead." (It was the same ad Merrill Lynch used in February 1947, when the Dow-Jones industrials were at 180 v. 605 currently.) The Securities and Exchange...
...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...
...Veeck, "being in baseball is like taking dope," and now that he is back, he has marijuana-sized dreams for the White Sox. Chicago is a potential gold mine, says Veeck: "Industry is diversified so that if one sector of the economy is hurting, it doesn't kill you like it would in Detroit or Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies...
...room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...