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...Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall...
...What do I mean by clean?" he asked, explaining his policy on bawdyhouses: "Keep the chippies (juveniles) out of the place. Don't handle dope in any way, shape or form. No showing of lewd sex movies." Above all, he added, reopen the old red-light district in Post Office Street...
...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...
Literature abounds with testimonials by narcotics addicts-De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire, Cocteau-to the beauties of the neverland to which their favorite dope has transported them. Most medical textbooks have copied each other's statements that the effect of narcotics is uniformly pleasant. But most people who try a couple of shots out of curiosity find the effects (including nausea and vomiting) so unpleasant that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only...
...inside dope on stock watering, underselling, pooling and secret rebates will be available for all undergraduates wishing to enter the spring competition of the Crime's Business Board, beginning tonight, 7:30 p.m., at 14 Plympton...