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...While the wife bleeds him white, Schwiefka sets up a frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop...
...Sitting as an appeals board in New York, presidents of the major movie companies upheld the Hollywood Production Code Administration and refused to give United Artists a code seal for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm because the movie deals with the taboo subject of dope addiction. U.A. promptly quit the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the code, went ahead with plans to release the movie, starring Frank Sinatra, in Manhattan this week, had high hopes that, like Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, also released without a code seal, it will make...
...wells, a laundry and a mail-order house. But Millionaire Halas will never get over his pigskin heart. "You know," he said sadly last week, "there is no greater thrill in life for me than winning a National League game. Other men may get theirs from liquor, or dope, or girls or golf. For me, nothing can equal winning a football game...
STAB IN THE DARK, by Joe Rayfer (218 pp.; Morrow; $2.75), makes excessive wickedness seem just about as dull as excessive virtue. A group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope, adultery and murder. Best feature: the exotic setting of purple trees and pink adobe walls, as vividly colorful as a Mexican travel poster. But the characters are two-dimensional poster figures...
...purpose of this personal service is to help each individual with his own particular problems. On the Foundation's application form, the prospective student is asked to check off his deficiencies from a list which includes some fifty of the more common frailties. These include poor eyesight, alcoholic tendencies, dope addiction, unhappiness, inability to make friends, hate, fear, bashfulness, and any of four varities of sex difficulties ("over, under, fear of, perversion...