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...elder son, Eugene Jr., a brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked...
...Bureau of Standards' investigation that found the battery additive, AD-X2, worthless, and forced the resignation of Dr. Allen V. Astin, the bureau's director (TIME, April 27; July 6). In the subsequent hullabaloo, a committee of ten well-known scientists was assigned to investigate the battery dope, and Weeks reinstated Astin "temporarily." (He later made the reinstatement permanent.) Last week the committee's report was made public: 1) the quality of the bureau's investigation under Dr. Astin was "excellent," and 2) AD-X2 is "without merit...
Football propaganda is expected of every school. Outstanding players are often pictured on the covers of their college gridiron "dope books" (Dick Clasby included) or lavishly praised within those covers...
...September 27, 1952, the Post's eight-column banner headlined KREMLIN NEWSPAPERS IN HUB LIBRARY READING ROOM. "Top-level Communists and their underlings," the story said, "get the latest dope straight from Moscow at the expense of the Boston taxpayers who are footing the bill for importing Pravda and Izvestia for the Boston Public Library." (Actually, the papers were financed from a private endowment.) The article told how Communists could lure children to the papers and fill their ears with translated propaganda. This story was part of the Post's effort to remove Russian-language newspapers from the Boston Public...
...scared, so scared that he called St. Louis Police Lieut. Louis Shoulders, telling him: "I've got a guy that's really hot. He's throwing away money and lots of it. He's got a big gun, and he's drunk and on dope." With a patrolman. Shoulders went to the Town House, an apartment building where Hall had rented Room 303, and where he expected Hager to bring him another woman. The patrolman, following instructions from Hager, knocked three times and called: "Steve, this is Johnny." Hall unlatched the door and opened...