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...about time for a few brave souls to get in the vanguard to strike down the odiously hypocritical attitude which Christianity insists on maintaining towards sex . . . Let the "bluenoses" use their energy towards cleaning up some really important social evils of our time, things like overcrowded slums, teen-age dope addiction . . . disease and want of all kinds...
...Houston, where the big G.G. test was made (TIME, July 14), authorities still had a many-pointed problem: what to do with 33,127 syringes. Though they were intended to be discarded after use, care had to be taken lest they fall into the hands of dope addicts. Somebody suggested dropping them down a 5,000-ft. oil boring, then sealing it with concrete. Last week they were melted down in a 2,000° incinerator, then the vitreous mass with needles embedded in it was buried under ten feet of garbage...
...ferry last week from The Bronx to North Brother Island in the East River. For Johnny, like most of the first half-dozen young addicts admitted to New York City's Riverside Hospital, was a mama's boy. From an underprivileged Harlem family, Johnny had taken to dope largely to prove that he was no sissy...
...Cold Turkey." After routine admission procedures (including a bath so that they can be searched for dope), the inmates are put in observation wards and taken off the drug. If they can be withdrawn from drugs at once ("cold turkey"), so much the better; if their withdrawal symptoms are too severe for that, they are tapered off. No ward has more than four beds. Each youngster will clean up his own room and do his personal laundry. Many hours a day are set aside for interviews with psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. There are first-class facilities for home economics...
Died. Irving Wexler, 63, alias Waxey Gordon, onetime (1905) pickpocket who advanced through stickups, slugging, dope-peddling and murder into big-time racketeering; of a heart attack; on Alcatraz. During Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555,537 in 1931-32, but paid only $2,615.76 in income tax (for which U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years in 1933). In the underworld of Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns...